| From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.
From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all. She suffers each disappointment with resolute cheer (after a few tears) and a bowl of pastina (recipe included) and has lived to tell the tale so that other women may go out, hopefully with greater success, and if that's not possible, at least have something good to eat.
Peppered throughout Giulia's delightful and often poignant remembrances are fond recollections of her mother's cooking, the recipes she learned from her, and many she invented on her own inspired by the men in her life. Readers will howl at Giulia's boyfriend-littered past and swoon over her irresistable culinary creations.
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In this touching and entertaining memoir, a woman writes with wit and honesty about her dating experiences in New York City. She describes her attempts to woo men with home-cooked meals, and she punctuates her tales with recipes for her pasta dishes.
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Praise| "[Y]ou can replicate her delectable...attempt[s] to bake her way out of an especially bad breakup...and root for a woman who learns to nourish her own stomach--and soul...." - Leah Greenblatt 04/10/2009 "You could call the book SEX AND THE CITY with recipes,...[except] unlike the SEX AND THE CITY girls, [Melucci] cooks. Her romantic adventures in the book are interspersed with recipes like 'Morning After Pumpkin Bread' and 'Ineffectual Eggplant Parmigiana'" - Joyce Wadler 04/08/2009 "[Melucci] has both wit and an enviable sense of balance that's reflected in the delectable evening meals she cooks.... Her recipes for gutsy, straightforward pastas reinforce the gutsy, straightforward persona she's created on the page, and you wonder how anyone could resist either 'linguine with friendly little fish' or the woman who makes it." - Jennifer Reese 06/10/2009 |
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