1899. ELINA COLOMBINI, A GENTLEWOMAN IN THE KITCHEN

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Francesca Colombini Cinelli

1899. Elina Colombini. A Gentlewoman in the kitchen.
The recipes, the secrets, the food in the house of my grandmother, who for love became a cook

96 pp., ill. b/n, 210 x 145 mm, english
ISBN 978-88-94949-01-8 € 9,00

Francesca Colombini is a “Tuscan from Montalcino” (in Siena these subtitles  make a difference) and belongs to a family in which everyone has always left evidence of everything. The author would sometimes go digging through the papers of her paternal grandmother, Elina Colombini Padelletti, in the family archives. Here Signora Francesca has sought out the letters, the memoranda, the notes left in books or on yellowed photographs of a world gone by, often times marvelous and heartrending. Especially so in the recipes.