De Blasi, a chef and food writer from St. Louis, begins a whirlwind romance with a man in Venice.

They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious le

A transplanted American chef and food writer continues the story of her life in Italy, describing her and her husband's move to Orvieto as they search for and f

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat

The next volume of memoir from the author of the international bestseller A Thousand Days in Venice introduces the extraordinary Antonia, imperious matriach of