A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
Jun 2013 · Algonquin Books
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An American chef meets the love of her life among the beautiful canals and exquisite cuisine of Venice—"better than a romance novel, it's the real thing" ( New Orleans Times-Picayune).
Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it's fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she quits her job, sells her house in St. Louis, kisses her two grown sons goodbye, and moves to Venice to marry "the stranger," as she calls Fernando.
This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't even know she was missing.
"An irresistible grown-up love story." — USA Today
Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it's fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she quits her job, sells her house in St. Louis, kisses her two grown sons goodbye, and moves to Venice to marry "the stranger," as she calls Fernando.
This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't even know she was missing.
"An irresistible grown-up love story." — USA Today
An American chef meets the love of her life among the beautiful canals and exquisite cuisine of Venice—"better than a romance novel, it's the real thing" ( New Orleans Times-Picayune).
Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in ...
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October 27, 2013
In 2013 we still have regional ebook/audio book publishing where items csn only be purchased in certsin countries. So I cant buy this. Ridiculous.
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About the author
An American chef and food and wine journalist, Marlena de Blasi has written five memoirs, a novel, and two books about the regional foods of Italy. She lives with her husband in the Umbrian hilltown of Orvieto. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.
An American chef and food and wine journalist, Marlena de Blasi has written five memoirs, a novel, and two books about the regional foods of Italy. She lives with her husband in the Umbrian hilltown of Orvieto. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.
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