Come dine with me

  1. Where Shall We Go For Dinner?
  2. by Tamsin Day-Lewis

This 'part-memoir, part-love story' is both faintly ridiculous and utterly enchanting. Day-Lewis's quest for the 'perfect dinner' has taken her across the globe and in this, her ninth volume, to rural Italy, Ireland's foodie capital, Kinsale, and New York, 'the greatest culinary melting pot of them all'. Each chapter tells of the discovery of an inviting dish or cuisine and has a set of recipes, but also involves a personal story, such as meeting her partner Rob ('I had finally met my match: someone as greedy as I am'). She's no great wordsmith, but she is funny - Hervé Mons, one of the top half-dozen affineurs in France, is 'a leonine whippet of a creature'. And while she's a shameless name-dropper, her advice is unpretentious and the book undeniably entertaining.

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