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It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished
dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to
categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker's
free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance
blossoms with Emily, Robert realises that the Muse and marriage may
not be incompatible after all. Sent to Abyssinia to make his
fortune in the coffee trade, he becomes obsessed with a negro slave
girl, Fikre. He decides to use the money he has saved to buy her
from her owner - a decision that will change not only his own life,
but the lives of the three Pinker sisters . . .
Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up
with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides
there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef.
Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young - and cooks in the
exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura,
Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi - it's his shy friend
Bruno who is the chef. But Tomasso is the one who knows how to get
the girls, and when Laura comes to dinner he persuades Bruno to
help him with the charade. It works: the meal is a sensual feast,
Laura is utterly seduced and Tomasso falls in lust. But it is
Bruno, the real chef who has secretly prepared every dish Laura has
eaten, who falls deeply and unrequitedly in love. A delicious tale
of Cyrano de Bergerac-style culinary seduction, but with sensual
recipes instead of love poems.
Twenty-two-year-old James Gould arrives in Occupied Naples in 1943,
where his duties include dissuading Allied soldiers from marrying
their beautiful Italian girlfriends, and his diet includes little
more than spam fritters and warmed-up rations. The girls of Naples,
however, soon arrange for a beautiful young country girl to join
his staff as a cook. Under the twin influences of Italian food and
Italian passion, James has only just realised that his heart is
more important than his orders, when an eruption of Vesuvius sets
in motion a series of epic events that will change their lives for
ever.
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