A boring afternoon in August, Mr. Manno, a pharmacist from a small Sicilian town, receives a threatening anonymous "die for what you did." Manno, without knowing what the note refers, the complaint brought hardship and forgotten the matter. But the day it was open season game, the pharmacist killed in the bush with another respectable villager, the doctor Roscio.

Italians love to talk about food. The aroma of a simmering ragu, the bouquet of a local wine, the remembrance of a past meal: Italians discuss these details as naturally as we talk about politics or sports, and often with the same flared tempers. In Why Italians Love to Talk About Food, Elena Kostioukovitch explores the phenomenon that first struck her as a newcomer to Italy: the Italian culinary code, or way of talking about food. Along the way, she captures the fierce local pride that gives Italian cuisine its remarkable diversity. To come to know Italian food is to discover the differences of taste, language, and attitude that separate a Sicilian from a Piedmontese or a Venetian from a Sardinian. Try tasting Piedmontese bagna cauda, then a Lombard cassoela, then lamb ala Romana: each is part of a unique culinary tradition.

Winds of revolution blows in Europe, and in Milan, a group of men poorly armed revolt against the Austrian army to restore freedom of the city. Jacopo and Aspasia live in those bright days of 1848 a love so brief as the insurrection itself, but as a perennial ideal that will never died. Theirs is a story of passion and betrayal in a world who dreamed of ideals and absolute love. Thirty-six years after the events, Count Italo Morosini, senator of the Kingdom of Italy, receives an anonymous manuscript that takes him back in time.

October 1st 1862, thirteen persons are stabbed at the same time in equidistant different points in the city of Palermo. Attorney Guido Giacosa is in charge of these multiple crimes investigation. He has just arrived in Sicilia after been appointed General Prosecutor at the Palermo Court of Appeal. He's committed to find the true instigator. The first suspect to confess his guilt is Angel DAngelo, and others will follow; however, the mastermind is elusive and hard to catch.