I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti (2009) by Giulia Melucci. This charming, appetite-stimulating memoir made for some entertaining reading, and made me hungry at the same time. Melucci has come up with a seemingly original idea for a book -- she tells about the men in her life, and with each man comes a batch of recipes, denoting food that she cooked for him, or food that she learned to cook from him. She starts each chapter with a description of the man, and then when it comes time to cook, she gives us the recipe for what she fixed. The recipes sound delicious, by the way, and her tales of failed romance are sharply and amusingly observed. The only disappointment: no happy ending. Grade: A