The Kitchen Bookshelf - Newsletter #13

Who would play Anna Del Conte in a movie of her life....?

Hello, all -

I write this having just finished the last page of Anna Del Conte’s memoir, Risotto With Nettles. What an incredible life she has led from a privileged childhood in Fascist-led Milan, through wartime escape to Emilia-Romagna (and a couple of spells in prison); and then coming to London in 1949, falling in love at Westminster Abbey a week be…