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 Second Day

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

The Second Day

WEDNESDAY'S luncheon was anticipated with some curiosity, or even searchings of heart, as in it would appear the first-fruits of the hand…

The Second Day: Marchesa

The Marchesa gave the Colonel and Lady Considine a holiday that afternoon, and requested Mrs. Gradinger and Van der Roet to attend in the…

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