An evocative memoir with recipes from the woman who brought Italian cooking to Britain. Anna was born in Milan, and brought up in Italy before and during the war, when life was dangerous, but food in the countryside still relatively plentiful. She arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland, marrying an Englishman, bringing up her children and writing her books which inspired a new generation of cooks, including Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver *As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini.
