Risotto With Nettles

Best of the books' (food): 'there is something very special about this book...observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the food she loves to cook, which launched a culinary revolution

David Herbert, Easy Living

Double the pleasure with the great Anna del Conte's lovely memoir with food

Elisabeth Luard, The Scotsman

Anyone who cooks should have Anna's books, it is the simple truth, along with the fact that she is, I'm telling you the best writer on Italian food there is...Anna Del Conte is unutterably chic and to be relished

Nigella, Observer Food Monthly

A well-mannered memoir of an engaging life, laced with recipes

Mail on Sunday, You magazine

Del Conte may have adopted English self-effacement with the energy of the converted but she knows how to tell a story

Nina Caplan, Time Out London

Recipe-stuffed... Rich in mouth-watering prose, this is proof indeed that food doesn't just nourish your body but also your soul

Metro

A rollercoaster read... frank and thought-provoking. Del Conte has lived life to the full, through good times and bad, and there's plenty here to keep you turning the pages

Irish Times

The autobiography or travelogue studded with recipes and oozing descriptions of whiffy hand-made cheeses has become a publishing cliché. Here though is one that really earns its place on the shelf. Anna del Conte is one of our most important cookery writers...Del Conte's recollections are crisply unsentimental

Victoria Moore, Daily Mail

The best writer on Italian food there is"...Del Conte is a great stylist...Inevitably, food plays a big part in the book and is described with tempting intensity

The Independent, Nigella Lawson

In this delightful memoir she intersperses the story of her life with a selection of some of the mouth-watering recipes that have helped establish her as a peerless expert on Italian cooking

Simon Shaw, Guardian