Skye McAlpine: A Table Full of Love

This week, Gilly is Zooming into the 17th-century Palazzo
home in Venice of Skye McAlpine. 


The daughter of Lord Alistair McAlpine, one of Margaret
Thatcher’s closest advisers, Skye grew up in Venice where she now
lives with her own family. A classics scholar with a PhD in
ancient love poetry, she’s an expert on how Greeks and
Romans understood love. And in her latest cook book, A Table Full
of Love, she writes a culinary love letter to the friends and
family whose recipes she’s gathered over time, whisking in
memories and a dash of affection.


If the first two books were about Venice and friends and
mismatched but beautiful China collected in flea markets, this is
a deeper read about memories and feelings in the language of
love.   Or is it?


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Venice with Skye in this week’s post.


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