Finding Valentino : four season in my father's Italy / Angela Di Sciascio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciascio, Angela Di, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italians--Australia--Biography.

Italians.

Italy--Social life and customs.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Victory Books, 2011.

Summary:

Angela Di Sciascio's father can no longer describe his past, lost in a world ravaged by Alzheimer's disease. Deciding not to let his story fade, Angela embarks on a voyage that takes her through four seasons in her father's Italy, reconnecting to her ancestry and absorbing all of its chaos, beauty and style. Meal by meal at her father's family table and step by step through the Italian countryside, she slowly comes to understand the young Valentino who left for the new world. Along the way, she discovers the simple pleasures of rustic polenta high in the mountains, pesto on the Ligurian coast and shares melt-in-your-mouth rag� with friends inla boisterous Rome. But she is always drawn back to the small hamlet tucked in the embrace of the Abruzzo mountains and the cuisine that feeds her soul, sharing with us her family's traditional recipes, as well as the joy of finding her father's home.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

A note on the recipes

Prologue

Winter

1 Cobblestone roads, il Papa and pepper

2 Slow days, fingerprints and la passeggiata

3 Cold days, cooking schools and heroes

Spring

4 Back to school and gelato

5 Festa della Donna

6 Food, soccer and stranieri

7 Blooms, bounty and bliss of spring

8 Le Marche and Umbria-Roman trails

9 Cuckoo birds and gondolas

10 Under the Tuscan clouds and finding George

Summer

11 Pink sunsets and fields of hay

12 Lentils, love and L'Aquila

13 Hot nights, cool ice and the sea

Autumn

14 Wedding bells, gladiators and gnome houses

15 Chestnuts, golden light and polenta

16 Arrivederci, Italia

17 Home.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522860269

0522860265

OCLC:

1089019144