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Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italys Orvieto. There along with their friend, Marlena they cook together, sit down to a beautiful supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk.

Surrounded by candle light, good food and friendship, the four women tell Marlena their evocative life stories, and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations.

Marlena de Blasi is the internationally bestselling author ofA Thousand Days in Venice, as well as four further bestselling memoirs and a novel,Amandine. She has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant and a restaurant critic. She is also the author of two internationally published cookbooks of Italian food. She and her Venetian husband, Fernando, live in Orvieto in Umbria, Italy.