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The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club
Marlena de Blasi
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Description for The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club
Paperback. Every Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto, to cook together, have supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk. In this book, the author tells their life stories, and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BM; WB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you'll love this' Red Magazine Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto. There - along with their friend, Marlena - they cook together, sit down to a beautiful supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk. Surrounded by candle light, good food and friendship, the four women tell Marlena their evocative life stories, and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations.
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099591856
SKU
V9780099591856
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21
About Marlena de Blasi
Marlena de Blasi is the internationally bestselling author of A Thousand Days in Venice, as well as four further bestselling memoirs and a novel, Amandine. She has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant and a restaurant critic. She is also the author of two internationally published cookbooks of Italian food. She and her Venetian husband, Fernando, live in Orvieto in Umbria, Italy.
Reviews for The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club
If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you'll love this. Great stories of ageing, abandonment, lost loves and Mafia feuds, interspersed with wonderful recipes for authentic dishes
Viv Groskop
Red Magazine
Celebrates the life-affirming joys of food and friendship... Marlena de Blasi recounts meals she and four Italian neighbours cook together every week and the stories they share about their lives and loves.
Good Housekeeping
Charming... astonishingly rich... Marlena De Blasi writes about the food with mouthwatering relish... Best of all, the women tell de Blasi the stories of their lives: stories that between them make for a terrific piece of social history
Reader's Digest Marlena de Blasi knows how to write real-life romance... Each woman's passions, disappointments and hopes are artfully recounted in this earthy celebration of life's small delights
Sydney Morning Herald
Marlena De Blasi's glittering descriptions and mouthwatering recipes take you directly into the heart of Italy and into the souls of the Italian people.
Adriana Trigiani
author of The Shoemaker's Wife
Viv Groskop
Red Magazine
Celebrates the life-affirming joys of food and friendship... Marlena de Blasi recounts meals she and four Italian neighbours cook together every week and the stories they share about their lives and loves.
Good Housekeeping
Charming... astonishingly rich... Marlena De Blasi writes about the food with mouthwatering relish... Best of all, the women tell de Blasi the stories of their lives: stories that between them make for a terrific piece of social history
Reader's Digest Marlena de Blasi knows how to write real-life romance... Each woman's passions, disappointments and hopes are artfully recounted in this earthy celebration of life's small delights
Sydney Morning Herald
Marlena De Blasi's glittering descriptions and mouthwatering recipes take you directly into the heart of Italy and into the souls of the Italian people.
Adriana Trigiani
author of The Shoemaker's Wife