Amore and Amaretti - A Tale of Love and Food in Italy by Victoria Cosford

Author:Victoria Cosford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2010-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

All through the afternoon and the evening, and until it becomes dark, we eat and talk and laugh and pose for photos. I am exhausted – the day has been almost too rich. And out come Emba's sticky orange biscuits which she made especially for her small Australian rabbit – and the ones we do not eat she bundles up for me to take home, even though, sated beyond comfort, I have vowed never to eat again.

I am relieved when Piero eventually announces that we must leave; I have almost depleted my store of brightness. The fact that for half a day, however, I have been called a coniglietta has had the effect – like a tonic – of dispelling my usual self-regard, that of a middle-aged woman ( di una certa eta – of a certain age) blundering thickly through the days, creating the occasional miracle of a dessert but mostly making no difference at all in the grand scheme of things. We roar off, Piero and I, into the night, swathed separately and together in the love and generosity of a glorious woman.

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