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This was a strange story. A young woman, the only daughter among 7 or 8 childeren, is trained to cook by her Mama in la Cucina of the family fattoria (farm). She's a protected child whose mother loves sex. Much ensues in this woman's story as she leaves the farm and moves to a city. She encounters, at her job, a man who is described as not being very attractive, nor is she. But there's an immediate attraction. The conflict, and the relationship, is then played out with food, cooking and marvelous recipes as the medium for resolving sexual tension and the playing out of sex acts. It makes for very sensuous reading.
But I had to figure out what the author was trying to say in this story. Is it about the behavior of Sicilians and vendetta, her own fantasies-or perhaps-reality?
All of the above?
At any rate, if the food and sex is your thing then read this book.


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La Cucina A Novel of Rapture Lily Prior 9780060953690 Books Reviews

This is possibly the worst novel I have read in decades. The characters are either silly cartoonish sterotypes dreamed up by an apparently ignorant foreigner or just plain bizarre. Yet I don't think the book was intended as pure farce. It's pretentious enough to be sprinkled with totally unnecessary and distracting fragments of sentences in "Italian," but so sloppy that the "Italian" is not even written correctly. (And no, these so-called Italian sentences aren't in correct Sicilian either. They're just an incorrect mess.) The plot is crudely constructed, the writing is clumsy, the characters silly, the dialogue just terrible, and all in all, it reads like a young teen's first attempt at creative writing. Was there no editor? Awful, awful trash.
All of my favorite things Sicily, food, & passion.
I absolutely love this book! It is funny, irrelevant, not at all a book of pretense, devoted solely to making the reader happy and amused.
The main character is compassionate, caring for her two little brothers, conjoined twins, when no one else would. She is passionate
about food and life, a charming and hopeless romantic, willing to abandon all for love and then, when love disappoints,
to seek other adventures. This is a book which will have you laughing out loud, one which you will
treasure for your own and enjoy giving to all your friends, which they in turn will share with everyone they love.
Entertaining seductive read. The characters are rustic and beautiful. I couldn't put the book down.
A well developed character (Rosa) whom I liked and cared about, delicious recipes I could almost taste (and look forward to making), passionate lovers, humorous family members and neighbors, and beautifully rendered portraits of Italian landscapes in various seasons that transported me there. Most of all, Lily Prior, weaves an excellent story that kept me interested from the first page to the last. I savored every chapter like a fine wine. Looking forward to her next book. I read this book after reading another fine story with food as its central theme that other readers might also enjoy Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl. Our book club (The Roudy Readers) is reading either or both of these great books for the month of May.
Bon Appetite!
When I first began reading this book, I was wondering why my friend suggested it. Outrageous descriptions, and difficult to follow, even though Prior gave a table of characters, they were meaningless without reading further. It got better in the middle, as if a new writer had taken over, so the plot was better understood. 3/4th's thru the writer begins fast forwarding and seems to skip pertinent information again. I am a passionate cook who believes in the powerful sensuality food can have on your love life. Noble first effort, but lacks authenticity of imagination when describing "body dining". Not flattering to people who are passionate about all things fair in love and what's eatable!
While I read this book, I found myself hoping, it seems, against hope, that something within its pages would hook me and justify the other rave reviews that this book received from other readers. Whatever turned them on failed to do the same for me. I found the story, the characters, and yes, even the culinary secrets to be insipid. Rosa, even in her agony of losing her first love, merely reports what is going on around her--and that is not to say that the author succeeds in portraying her as a woman distraught beyond words--she is simply flat and two-dimensional I wondered if the novel had been written in another language and then translated badly into English--but alas, no. The author simply fails to make Rosa a likeable character. Her frenzy of cooking supposedly meant to obliterate her pain should tantalize the reader with other mesmerizing sensations, but again, this does not occur. Instead, it translates Rosa into a blood-thirsty butcher that appears about as senseless as a hamster turning mindlessly within the staid boredom of its exercise wheel--no offense to the hamster. The plot is likewise boring and ridiculous. Rosa runs away to become a librarian in Palermo where after twenty long and tedious years finally becomes enamoured with an Enlishman with terrible teeth---I kept envisioning Austin Powers loverly yellowed dentures--UGH! Their so-called erotic love scenes are also meant to titillate, but they are puncuated with descriptions of Rosa's sausagelike physique encased in sausage skin corsets out of which the hero must slice her. Not very sexy. The grand climax--excuse the pun-involves, inevitably with a Sicilian tale--the NIAF should be notified of this acutely painful stereotyping--the Mafia and sadly, more of Prior's canned peasant activities---most notably Rosa discovering her father may be either a debauched priest or a half-witted farmhand, Rosa finding her mother dead in a lump of kneaded dough and SuperRosa aiding in the delivery of her Siamese twin brothers' prostitute wife's triplet daughters. Phew! The reunification of the two lovers is given no play at all--resulting in a tiny paragraph on the last page where miraculously Rosa as new queen of the country farm is proudly enscounced with her fabulously fattening food, her lackey brothers and finally her own personal court jester.
I do not recommend this book AT ALL. ... Just don't take 'La Cucina' seriously, the characters and the plot which I suppose the author and her editor thought hysterically off key simply fail to amuse. I add an extra star for some of the culinary procedures explained throughout the book; they do call to mind the rich smell of garlic sauteeing in a good full-bodied olive oil, but pathetically the book does nothing more.
This was a strange story. A young woman, the only daughter among 7 or 8 childeren, is trained to cook by her Mama in la Cucina of the family fattoria (farm). She's a protected child whose mother loves sex. Much ensues in this woman's story as she leaves the farm and moves to a city. She encounters, at her job, a man who is described as not being very attractive, nor is she. But there's an immediate attraction. The conflict, and the relationship, is then played out with food, cooking and marvelous recipes as the medium for resolving sexual tension and the playing out of sex acts. It makes for very sensuous reading.
But I had to figure out what the author was trying to say in this story. Is it about the behavior of Sicilians and vendetta, her own fantasies-or perhaps-reality?
All of the above?
At any rate, if the food and sex is your thing then read this book.