The Food of Love

8vo. Pp. [x], 339, [3, blank]. Purple printed wraps.

Publisher's bumf laid in.

Author's first title under this pen name. A Richard and Judy pick. A modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, but with sensual recipes instead of love poems as the weapons of seduction, in which a shy Italian woos an American girl with his food. The flavours and savours of Italian cooking are lovingly described with clever use of email and food reviews woven into the novel.

Anthony Capella is the nom de plume of Tony Strong who also writes psychological thrillers under the pseudonym JP Delaney. "It's a hymn to la dolce vita and the joy of food by someone who knows his stuff and his stuffing, a text that breathes authentic backstreet Rome from every page. I loved it." –The Times