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The Book of Culinary Delight
This book made my mouth water as I read about the enticing recipes made by the two main characters in the book. The chef is Amato Ferrero and his apprentice is Luciano and they work in the palace kitchen. The chef teaches his apprentice the meaning of life through the food they cook, which enriches the souls and minds of the people they cook for. The magical chef holds secrets to creating culinary masterpieces.
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This book made my mouth water as I read about the enticing recipes made by the two main characters in the book. The chef is Amato Ferrero and his apprentice is Luciano and they work in the palace kitchen. The chef teaches his apprentice the meaning of life through the food they cook, which enriches the souls and minds of the people they cook for. The magical chef holds secrets to creating culinary masterpieces.
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I want to love this so much more than I do - it should check all my boxes (lush food, history, secret plots), but somehow it tries so hard to hit those marks that it drifts into paint-by-numbers territory sometimes. And God, do I ever need to take a break from reading books with teenagers as protagonists. It's hard to love a character that you desperately want to strangle for being so abominably self-involved, realistic as it may be for the age bracket.
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Apr 02, 2017
Terri
marked it as kindle-2
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
italian-fiction
May 02, 2017
Lisa of Hopewell
marked it as to-read
