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London-based culinarian Capella (Food of Love) returns with the WWII-era story of Livia Pertini, a beautiful young widow who leaves her family's destitute country osteria to try to find work in Naples. There, English Capt, James Gould has been assigned the task of discouraging British soldiers from marrying Italian women, many of whom have turned to prostitution in order to survive. At first Gould is a stickler for the rules, closing down restaurants and denying couples permission to marry. But when Angelo, the maitre d' at restaurant Zi'Teresa, tricks him into hiring Livia as the officers' cook, things loosen up considerably. Capella celebrates war-torn pleasures of the flesh with a winning in-the-moment lightness.
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Livia Pertini's misfortunes cascade on one another like lava flowing down the flanks of Vesuvius, but she defiantly guards her dignity and self-respect even as other girls in war-torn Naples resort to selling themselves to survive. Even losing a beauty competition to her cow leaves her unshaken. When she finally does fall for a persistent, handsome soldier, he is shipped off only to die on the Russian front. As the Allies retake Italy, Livia exercises the one skill that sets her apart: her talent in the kitchen, especially her knack for making outstanding burrata: fresh, rich, leaf-enrobed mozzarella. But life and love rebound for Livia with the arrival of Captain James Gould, assigned to prevent hasty marriages between occupying Allied troops and Neapolitan prostitutes. Livia becomes the captain's cook, and her cuisine inexorably opens the door to his heart. Capella's vividly sensuous command of the arts of both food and romance will attract readers. Mark Knoblauch
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London-based culinarian Capella (Food of Love) returns with the WWII-era story of Livia Pertini, a beautiful young widow who leaves her family's destitute country osteria to try to find work in Naples. There, English Capt, James Gould has been assigned the task of discouraging British soldiers from marrying Italian women, many of whom have turned to prostitution in order to survive. At first Gould is a stickler for the rules, closing down restaurants and denying couples permission to marry. But when Angelo, the maitre d' at restaurant Zi'Teresa, tricks him into hiring Livia as the officers' cook, things loosen up considerably. Capella celebrates war-torn pleasures of the flesh with a winning in-the-moment lightness.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Livia Pertini's misfortunes cascade on one another like lava flowing down the flanks of Vesuvius, but she defiantly guards her dignity and self-respect even as other girls in war-torn Naples resort to selling themselves to survive. Even losing a beauty competition to her cow leaves her unshaken. When she finally does fall for a persistent, handsome soldier, he is shipped off only to die on the Russian front. As the Allies retake Italy, Livia exercises the one skill that sets her apart: her talent in the kitchen, especially her knack for making outstanding burrata: fresh, rich, leaf-enrobed mozzarella. But life and love rebound for Livia with the arrival of Captain James Gould, assigned to prevent hasty marriages between occupying Allied troops and Neapolitan prostitutes. Livia becomes the captain's cook, and her cuisine inexorably opens the door to his heart. Capella's vividly sensuous command of the arts of both food and romance will attract readers. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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