Il piacere a tavola con Gabriele D’Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio, the great multiform European intellectual, was also interested in food and cooking, especially during the years of the Vittoriale. The arrival of a lover usually caused the poet to crave food, and so he wrote a quick note to his faithful cook Albina (Suor Intingola), ordering a breakfast for the stranger who had come under his claws. At other times, however, he felt that a dish was needed that would suit a particular type of female beauty. Andrea Maia collects in the book Il piacere a tavola con Gabriele D’Annunzio the favorite dishes of the Vate, with a particular look to the recipes of his native land of Abruzzo.