Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate.

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