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*As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time.
When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous…
As a teenager, Anna became used to throwing herself into a ditch as the strafing planes flew over, and was imprisoned, twice.
Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land – from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini.
Anna arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland.
She married an Englishman and stayed on, and while bringing up her children, she wrote books which inspired a new generation of cooks.
This is a memoir of a life seen through food – each chapter rounded off with mouthwatering recipes.
