Book Review: “The Food of Love” – Anthony Capella
Our flatmate Ali brought this book home from the Queenstown library. She didn’t know anything about it and picked it off the shelf “just because.” I didn’t mean to read it actually but one rainy Friday afternoon I picked it up and by the time I put it down I was about half way done.
The storyline is simple . . . an American girl, Laura, studying art in Italy falls in love with an Italian chef. The twist . . . the man she falls in love with, Tommaso, and the Italian chef, Bruno, are actually two different people and best friends as well. To try to win Laura’s heart Tommaso needed the skills of a talented chef and talked his best friend into secretly cooking, while Tommaso took the credit, for Laura. All hell breaks loose when Laura finds out that she was actually in love with Tommaso’s cooking, and therefore Bruno, and not Tommaso at all. It’s a quick read and I almost had the sense that I was watching a movie as I read it.