The Food of Love::Anthony Capella :: Rocco Sisto

Food, sex, and Rome. Delicious words string together bodies of edible women and edible animals and recipes of both until it seems uncivilized to separate eating and coupling.

10 Years of Reviews

A few Jewish words referring to a few ritual baked goods eaten by a few Jews does not a Jewish novel make. Nor does a description of a modestly clad woman with her hair tied back by a long scarf. If the Peter Decker novels wielded some specific charm byBlindman's Bluff by Faye Kellerman read by Mitch Greenburg

A catholic tailor used his life savings to go to the Vatican. When he returned his parish gathered to find out what he had seen. "What kind of a fellow is the Pope?" they asked him. "44 Medium," he said. This is the kind of obsession Buffet is lookingWarren Buffet's Management Secrets by Mary Buffett & David Clark. Performed by Mary Buffett.

A well upholstered, crisply intelligent middle aged police inspector newly widowed from her faithless, politically agile husband, is called back to work after many years. She colors her hair, tries to eat less, and reconnoitres her domestic life across and through the investigation of a murder, the enmity of theA Small Indiscretion by Denise Rudberg translated by Laura Wideberg read by Joyce Bean

It is truly comforting to hear good old Tony Roberts playing good old Stone Barrington sitting at good old Elaine's on 88th and Second, looking at the girls again, working another case. Stone is hungry. Hungrier than usual, for a rare hamburger, cooked for lawyers, not by lawyers. AndFresh Disasters by Stuart Woods read by Tony Roberts

Although I didn't see her face, I knew that the woman in the coloring chair was beautiful. It wasn't just because she had long, lush, gorgeous hair, but because she was tearing out a page of WWD, where she had eyed another beautiful woman with long hair. And beautiful womenI Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron read by Nora Ephron

An insider's view of the pentagon: Three of the four military services have their headquarters within these walls... The underlying idea is that proximity will force the services to work together in neighborly harmony. And it would seem to make sense because after allMan in the Middle by Brian Haig read by L.J. Ganser

Publisher: Harper Audio ; Distributed by Recorded Books,Pub Date: p2001 Extraordinary work. Self-centered opera singer and doting Japanese businessman-fan hostaged by South American amateur terrorists at glitterati party. BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett

There is a yummy baked goods kitchen feeling, because the woman baking the cookies has an organized sense of her world, she has friends, one dead and one living ex-husband, girl-children, and flour in her pantry. But -- and there are 50 years worth of buts-- she also has aThe Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman read by Gabra Zackman

"Don't you know I'm going to live happily ever after anyway?" After painting, waxing, polishing, wallpapering, and flowering up her old Nantucket house, Nan tells Sara about a man she met and loved. Sarah replies: but wouldn't it be nice if you met him again and fell in love and livedThe Beach House by Jane Green read by Cassandra Campbell

In some possible Doris Day movie about a perky blonde secretary and a rich executive bachelor there is a perpetual secretarial pool typing out Nora Roberts novels in time to Sinatra or Liszt. There is no Nora Roberts. There is a pool of Nora Roberts, a herd of Nora Roberts,The Nora Roberts Pool

Gamash celebrates his marriage at a bed and breakfast with beds so high you need a little step stool to climb into them and bumps into a family murder. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny read by Ralph Cosham

Elizabeth Moon The Speed of Dark read by Grover Gardner Pattern recognition is the theme of this second millenium. Knowledge is pattern recognition. Love is pattern recognition. Beauty is pattern recognition. Those who can recognize patterns get to recognize more patterns. Hi, ho. Class struggle. Now, lets get flush. A few smallElizabeth Moon The Speed of Dark read by Grover Gardner

Gruellingly slow story about a reporter who is shot in her car while picking up a prescription that her husband forgot to pick up for her. She goes to her husband's historic cottage in Virginia where she bumps into helpful neighbors, young and old, who tell her stories about herEmilie Richards, Lover's Knot read by Isabel Keating

Insider's guide to Heists read with wet, phlegmy voice of "Jake Weber" who may also be Robertson Dean. Read it instead. Ghostman by Roger Hobbs

Daughter of an Italian beauty who somehow wandered into the wrong mountains, Ave Maria is still considered a 'forner', despite spending 35 years in Big Stone Gap, driving the volunteer Rescue Squad truck, and directing the annual town play. Charming, stubborn, hot tempered Ave loves theatreBig Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani read by Adriana Trigiani

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