Kirjahaku

Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure is the story of Jacoby Pines, a disheartened American who arrives in Italy on holiday, and decides he never wants to leave. What follows is a wine-soaked, food-filled, travel-laden adventure about one man's quest for an antiquated existence in the modern world.

Cucina Romana: Another Italian Adventure continues the story of Jacoby Pines, a fledgling expat in Tuscany who discovers a potential connection to his ancestry while on holiday in Rome. What follows is a food-filled, wine-soaked adventure about one man's quest for family among the splendor of Italy.

Mike O'Shea and Andy Cotto knew each other their entire lives. Born days apart on the same block, baptized in the same water, the two friends were inseparable growing up and into adulthood.After celebrating their 40th birthdays together, Mike falls ill and dies shortly after. The impact on Andy is enormous, and he spirals into a depression that threatens everything he holds dear.Through memory and support, Andy is able to reconcile his grief and appreciate the power of male friendship and the beauty of life.Pasta Mike is a testimony to the bonds men share and the vulnerabilities beneath the stoic surface.

The idea, like so many of massive effect and modest intention, came in an instant. The fact that it involved an anachronistic actor of unique swagger and fortitude as well as one of the world's most recognized yet private persons, a woman of English elegance and California beauty, surely inspired the madness that would follow in its wake and set fire to a lumpen nation with a fetish for celebrity, sex and scandal. And so it began with an idea that was actuated with a photograph and abetted by technology, dispirit accomplices, clandestine maneuverings, exquisite branding, and an epic humiliation that would leave a large portion of America burning and the whole country choking on its own foul dust. And so it began...