The author has for the last 20 years shared her life with a sculptor whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks has taken them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She has written a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel.<CR><CR> It is not like any other book written in the past 50 years and its memory will stay forever. - Theodora Fitzgibbon.