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La Cucina

Lily Prior

Paperback | Pages: 268 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 2042 Users | 211 Reviews

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Original Title:	La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture
ISBN:	0552999091 (ISBN13: 9780552999090)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Sicily(Italy)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2002)

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La Cucina combines the sensuous pleasures of love and food, simmering in the heat of a Sicilian kitchen. Rose Fiore is a solitary middle-aged librarian who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through her delicious cooking. Then, one day, she meets an enigmatic chef, known only as l'Inglese, whose research on the heritage of Sicilian cuisine leads him into Rosa's library and into her heart. They share one sublime summer of discovery, during which l'Inglese awakens the power of Rosa's sexuality, and together they reach new heights of culinary passion. When he vanishes unexpectedly, Rosa returns to her family's estate to grieve for her lost love only to find a new fulfilment as well as many surprises in the magic of her beloved Cucina.

A love song to Italy, La Cucina is a celebration of all things sensual. It spills over with intense images, colours, fragrances, and exuberant characters, all reflecting the splendour of the Silician countryside in which it is set.

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Title	:	La Cucina
Author	:	Lily Prior
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 268 pages
Published	:	July 2nd 2001 by Black Swan (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Food and Drink. Food. Romance. Cultural. Italy. Magical Realism. Cooking

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Ratings: 3.46 From 2042 Users | 211 Reviews

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Enjoyable book, good pace, characters interesting and funny and evocative of Sicily and Italian food.



A friend loaned this book; her mother loaned it to her because she said it made her laugh. I didn't laugh but I sure enjoyed reading this story of passion, in all rooms of the house and in the garden as well. The cover is rich and so is the story. La Cucina is the kitchen where the life of the cooks in the household takes place. Rosa Flores is a cook - kneading dough calms her, creating an elaborate dish lets her forget her pain. A sumptuous read.

Definitely a page turner: I read it in less than three hours. However, I didn't enjoy it as the love interest's personality was repellent. For example, "[he] waved me ahead of him up the spiral staircase. I had reached halfway before I realized that he had positioned himself directly underneath and was looking up my skirts. I tried to gather the material close around my legs so he could not see anything, but in truth, he had already seen everything. He smiled broadly at my discomfort." Urgh.

4.5 StarsOkay guys, remember all the hype surrounding Eat, Pray, Love - about how it was all about the food and the celebration of being your own person? And then you read it and found it to be a pretty vapid and pretentious travelogue? Well, then La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture might actually satisfy you if you are looking for something similar to what was promised with that other book.Not only are there a ton of mouth-watering descriptions of Sicilian cooking, but the prose is actually

I thoroughly enjoyed this book that is an unabashed celebration of sensuous and sensual experiences - be they culinary or erotic. It is NOT food porn or any other porn as one reviewer alleged. I can only ascribe this very sad misunderstanding to a calvinistic nature of the reviewer.

What even is this book. The plot is loosely held together with cooking and lust.