A review by johannah
Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City by Elizabeth Minchilli

4.0

Three books in one! First, Minchilli has written a food memoir of her life in Rome - all the places she goes, her favorite foods, family, farmers markets, gelato. Second, she includes a guide book for anyone who goes to Rome to find her favorite places. Finally, she provides recipes for many of the foods she discusses - mostly food one cannot find in standard Italian cookbooks. For me (and I love to read cookbooks) it was a page-turner. Why not 5 stars? Grammar. She writes in a very conversational style, which is nice, but the book is full of sentences-that-are-not-sentences and odd informal English. I found myself catching on the words and asking, what is she saying, a few too many times. Still, loved it.