La Bella Cucina

Collecting from her many years of travel and residence in Italy, celebrated author Viana La Place brings together in La Bella Cucina not only the essence of true Italian cooking, but the way of life so profoundly connected to it. For her, it is more than eating Italian; it is eating like an Italian: having espresso and biscotti for breakfast and never drinking coffee with milk past 11 a.m. to keep the palate clean for pranzo, or lunch, the heartiest meal of the day. Viana writes of cena, the late, light dinner, and of the Big Sunday Lunch, where every course is given due consideratoin and time.