Keeping the Feast
One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy

I read Keeping the Feast after hearing the author speak at a conference. She talked about writing and cooking to cure depression. Something about that combination of topics intrigued me, but I didn't begin her book for a year. Once started, I read through in a couple of days. The paragraphs below ar......more

While on assignment in Rome, Paula Butturini, a foreign correspondent for UPI, met John Tagliabue, himself a correspondent for the New York Times. Talking for hours over meals they loved cooking as much as eating, they fell in love (John later confessed, " I knew very quickly that wherever you were......more

I am fascinated by the power of food, and especially good food shared around a common table, to heal people’s hearts. The pace of the book itself reminds me of a long, lingering meal…thoughtful, nourishing, patient. The author writes frankly about the agony of her husband’s descent into depression,......more

Being in Rome during the best of times as young career professionals, then returning to Rome as beat-up, bruised and battered Americans from an assignment to Warsaw, Poland shows the eternal city as friend and healer. We hope to be in Rome later this year and expect to love what Paula Butturini desc......more

A beautiful story of love, tragedy, brutal honesty, and food. I was deeply saddened by the fact that the story is written about a divorced and remarried couple, and from a nominal Christian perspective. But, the things she says about tragedy, and food, and friendship, these things are very good.......more