First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 242, [4 (publisher's ads)]. Pictorial wraps. Map, b/w photographs.
Publisher's bumph laid in.
Memoir of a post-World War II childhood, centred in the kitchen and adjoining herb garden of a Livorno family home, by the Tuscan coast. Authentic recipes included. "Beguiling... A richly textured past intimately evoked." –Kirkus Reviews