A literary cookbook about Venetian cuisine, as Paola cooks them in the Brunetti novels, with a foreword and six culinary stories by Donna Leon
Roberta Pianaro, born in 1948, has a jewellery workshop and a much
used kitchen. Donna Leon calls Roberta the 'Risotto Queen' and
often gets to enjoy her cooking. Just as well, for numerous dishes
from Roberta's kitchen are served to the Brunettis as well.
Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived
in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a
teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have
all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which
won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through A Glass,
Darkly, Suffer the Little Children, and most recently, The Girl of
His Dreams.
Tatjana Hauptmann was born in Wiesbaden in 1950. After attending
the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, she worked as an apprentice
graphics artist at the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden for three
years, and for ZDF television afterwards.
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