We just got her book Sicilian food. Recipes from Italy’s Abundant Isle, and I am floored by the brilliance of the preface, having read only 4 pages; it is so intelligently and engagingly written, suggesting so much depth and fun within.
‘Meanwhile, the first spores of feminism were swelling inside me like a potent but a yet unidentified yeast, and the sheer quantity of “maintenance cooking”…