Tales from the Table

A family of the Italian South seen, as in a great fresco, with all its joys and hardships. This is the tale of a table two hundred years long, around which seven generations have sat. The laughter and sorrows of these extraordinary men and women were bound together by the fragrent dishes that arrived from their kitchens.ANTONIO ALFANI has always defined himself as “a gypsy of the world”. Asa youth he lived with his family between Salerno, Naples and Rome. Later,as an adult, he lived in Paris, London and New York. Today he has set downroots in the florentine Chianti hills, where he dreams of his new travels. Hestill recalls how, as a boy, his parents would take him to see Capodimonteor Pompeii rather than to the playground. Later he would bring the same“gusto” to the restaurants and pastry shops of the world, in search of thebest that the culinary arts could offer him. Thanks to his family heritage,carefully guarded and handed down from generations of cooks, evenAntonio's most complicated recipes are uncomplicated and easy to follow.www.antonioalfani.com Read more