Unplugged kitchen

This is no ordinary cookbook. Not only do the recipes have the power to change our perceptions about food, but she offers us a map through the landscape of food, with its rituals and its particular pleasures. In this sensory world, your nose pressed to a tomato tells you how freshness smells and your eyes measure olive oil in puddles. You crush walnuts in a mortar and press soup through a food mill to create more interesting textures. Viana goes wherever food delights and brings us along to taste asparagus in Rome and green almonds under a tree in a Sicilian garden. Along the way she…