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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

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

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

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.