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 Seventh Day

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

The Seventh Day

"It seems invidious to give special praise where everything is so good," said Mrs. Sinclair next day at lunch, "but I must say a word about…

The Seventh Day: English

With regard to herbs, this could not always have been the rule, for I never go into an old English garden without finding there a border…

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