Böcker av Anne Pia

Magnaccioni (Roman dialect): people who live to eat well. I know no other word that captures that rare gift, that supremely basic human quality of eating with mind, eyes and heart and radiating uncontainable pleasure in so doing. Writing as a passionate food aficionada, Anne Pia has created a convivial and open-hearted cookery book that invites you into her kitchen. In Magnaccioni, she shares her own family recipes and the food she has enjoyed in Italy based on la cucina povera, la cucina di terra ‿ the use of fresh produce and simple ingredients to create sumptuous, joyful feasts. Get ready to listen to Italian music, pour a glass of wine and enjoy cooking with Anne. Join her in becoming magnaccioni!

Anne Pia's responses to Baudelaire's poetry are emotional, intellectual and linguistic. Given her profound love for France's language and culture, Pia set herself the challenge of recreating some of this powerful mix in our English language. She succeeded in this and draws the reader into the intimacy of her own intellectual and artistic journey.

This is the question Anne Pia continually asked of herself growing up in the Italian-Scots community of post-World War Two Edinburgh. Yet - like her relationship with her own mother - her `belonging' in her Italian and Scottish heritages remains to this day unresolved and complex.