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 Tenth Day

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

The Tenth Day

The sun rose on the tenth and last day at the "Laurestinas" as he was wont to rise on less eventful mornings. At breakfast the Marchesa…

The Tenth Day: Marchesa

The Marchesa seemed little flurried, and Mrs.

The Tenth Day: Narcisse

Sir John was the least superstitious of mortals, still here he was face to face with one of these conjunctions of affairs which the…

The Tenth Day: John

Monstre-” but before the reciter could get fairly under way the door mercifully opened, and Sir John entered.

The Tenth Day: Italian

Alas! Sir John did not find the right placefor there are "right places" amongst the Italian restaurants of London. He beat a hasty retreat…

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