The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

The First Day

2 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

The First Day

On the Tuesday morning the Marchesa travelled down to the "Laurestinas," where she found that Mrs. Fothergill had been as good as her word.

The First Day: Italian

The dinner was both a revelation and a surprise to the majority of the company. All were well travelled, and all had eaten of the mongrel…

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