Cooking With Fernet Branca
ISBN:
9780571220908 (0571220908)
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Italy,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction
Series: Gerald Samper (#1)
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2012/04/review-cooking-with-fernet-branca-by.html
This is the story of two neighbors living in Tuscany. They were both looking for solitude and a beautiful view. Each was told by (the same) realtor that they had a foreign neighbor who was only present one month per year and was very quiet. And so begins a classic comedy of errors... It reminds m...
Mildly amusing skewering of the Englishmen in Italy foodie stories that did have some funny lines but in the end did not really amount to a whole lot.
After you've read too many lovely, wish-you-were-here travel memoirs & foodie books, Cooking with Fernet Branca is the amusing & biting antidote. I thoroughly enjoyed this parody & it had me literally laughing out loud at times. I'd give it 3.5 stars overall; I'll round it up to 4 stars because it m...
"Cooking With Fernet Branca" by James Hamilton-Paterson is part of oddball publisher Europa Editions's sinister plot to make Murrikins like me aware of the strange and sinister world of lit'rachoor published beyond our shores. Muriel Barbery owes her Murrikin presence to them, too. We all know how *...
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