Book Description

From an Abruzzo Heart to a Savannah Table From the Hudson River Valley to Abruzzo, Italy, and the Southern Tidelands of America, this book is for anyone who longs to cook, travel or breathe Italian. She Speaks in Sauce springs from the hearth of cuisine to deliver one cup Heart, a tablespoon history and a heaping tablespoon of Heritage. Flavored with luminous photography, this cookbook collection of keepsake stories and family recipes dares to be different. Only a cradle cook with fierce resolve would shed corporate shackles and escape to her family homeland in Abruzzo, Italy. Through exotic culinary delights of the ages, this futurist steps back in time to search for her past. Or, so she thought. What could be better than time-honored recipes? Open this book to find out. Beginning with prehistoric man, the author's methodical research uncovers centuries of war and devastation. What united the people to survive? There is only one place to discover the magic of the Abruzzo and she will not disembark without it. Fueled by the Abruzzese passion flowing through her veins, she drives high up into the Region of mountains and mystery. Villagers rarely see Americans and she wonders if these are dangerous times. Alone, yet unwavering, for her a moment lasts forever. Bell chimes guide her to a 16th century medieval village. Arriving at a wall of stone homes, her hand barely touches the wooden door when it opens. Behind arrow-slit windows of yesteryear, she hears the unmistakable voice that changes her life. She discovers a story so compelling, so loving, it begs to be told.