Now I'm hungry...

Rating: ☆☆☆

Title: The Food of Love

Author: Anthony Capella

Genre: Fic / Romance / Food

Read: 27 th July 2005




Comments: Yummy! In this modern Cyrano story Bruno, a young and wildly talented cook tries to help his friend Tommaso (a lowly waiter) gain the heart of the woman he lusts after (a gorgeous blond American exchange student named Laura) by cooking her luscious Italian dishes. Predictably he falls in love with her himself and various hijinx, soul-searching etc. ensue. The one-dimensionality of the characters (you already know just about everything you need to know about them from that last sentence) ensures this book's failure as a novel, but as food porn it's pretty good. Lots of passionately-written mouth-watering descriptions of extravagant meals lift it from two stars to three, but if you want a really good foodie romance I suggest 'Like Water for Chocolate'.

Quote: 'Levati questo camello dai coglioni. *Literally Lift this camel off your balls.'

The Food of Love