"A heart-warming celebration of the Italian family and its cuisine" from the bestselling author of Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table (Alexander McCall Smith).Following the successful publication of Dear Francesca and Dear Olivia, bestselling author Mary Contini picks up the thread of her family story from 1934 in Pozzuoli, Naples, following the commercial success of the family business—Edinbu...

In this fascinating follow-up to the highly successful Dear Francesca, Mary Contini writes to her other daughter, Olivia, to tell the story of her great-grandparents, the humble Italian shepherds who emigrated to Edinburgh and then helped to transform Britain's food culture. Sharing some of the recipes that they brought over, the tomatoes, the garlic, the sausage, the wine, this is a mouthwatering memoir of family and food. It is also a brilliant evocation of life between the wars, a trium...

Valvona & Crolla has been described as 'the Sistine chapel of continental delis'. Founded in 1934 by the Continis' ancestors, the Italian shop and restaurant is legendary in food circles for its excellent food and drink. Now, co-owners Mary (author of the bestselling Dear Francesca and co-author of the Easy Peasy cooking series) presents 200 delicious and authentic recipes. Organised season by season, the book offers a year of sumptuous delights from around the country of her heri...

"Wine was free, but we had to pay for water."Joe Chiriaco and his thirteen siblings heard this from their Italian immigrant father as he recounted his ocean journey to America. In the face of limited water and rudimentary dirt roads, Joe and his Norwegian wife, Ruth Bergseid, founded Chiriaco Summit in the 1930s, a desert travel oasis on today's Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Los Angeles, promising to serve the world on wheels.The twenty-four-seven challenges are lighten...

Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis.Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles ...

La philosophie de la vie de Jean-Marie Guyau (1854-1888) représente l’une des perspectives les plus originales de son temps dans les domaines de l’éthique, de l’esthétique et des études sociologiques. Cependant, malgré son influence sur des auteurs comme Nietzsche, Bergson, Durkheim et Kropotkine, cet auteur a été considéré comme peu important dans l’histoire de la philosophie française. Ce livre, auquel ont contribué les plus grands spécialistes de Guyau, vise à redécouvrir l’actualité de...