The Umbrian Supper Club / by Marlena de Blasi.
Publication details: Australia : Allen & Unwin, 2015.Description: 349 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781743317921 (paperback)
- De Blasi, Marlena -- Travel -- Italy -- Umbria
- De Blasi, Marlena -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Umbria
- De Blasi, Marlena -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Umbria
- De Blasi, Marlena -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice
- De Blasi, Marlena -- Travel -- Italy -- Umbria
- De Blasi, Marlena
- Dinners and dining -- Italy -- Umbria
- Dwellings -- Italy -- Orvieto
- Food habits -- Italy
- Country life -- Italy -- Umbria
- Cooking, Italian -- Umbrian style
- Cooking, Italian
- Women -- Italy -- Umbria -- Biography
- Food habits -- Italy
- Dinners and dining -- Italy -- Umbria
- Women -- Italy -- Umbria -- Biography
- Biography & True Stories
- Food habits -- Italy -- Umbria
- Food habits
- Manners and customs
- Travel
- Umbria (italy) -- Social life and customs
- Umbria (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Italy -- Social life and customs
- Umbria (Italy) -- Social life and customs
- Umbria (Italy) -- Description and travel
- Italy -- Umbria
- 641.5945 23
- GT2853.I8
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 641.594 DEB | Available | 060176 |
"Once a week, five women gather to cook, eat, drink and talk, Umbrian-style, and no subject is a taboo." --Cover.
Luscious and evocative, The Umbrian Supper Club recounts the stories of a small group of Umbrian women who - sometimes with their men and, as often, without them - gather in an old stone house in the hills above Orvieto to cook, to sit down to a beautiful supper, to drink their beloved local wines. And to talk. During the gathering, the preparation, the cooking and the eating, they recount the memories and experiences of their gastronomic lives and, as much, of their more personal histories. For a period of four years, it was Marlena de Blasi's task, her pleasure, to cook for the Supper Club - to choose the elements for supper, to plan the menu and, with the help of one or another of the women in the club, to prepare the meal. What she learnt, what they cooked and ate and drank and how they talked is the fundamental stuff of this book.