Ida At My Table
a story of food, hope and how a dream became a restaurant on london’s unlikeliest road
$35.98
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2025
Summary
Ida At My Table: A Culinary Love Story
A recipe-filled memoir of food, love, family and running a small neighbourhood restaurant that has survived recession and lockdowns to become an internationally-renowned haven of Italian home cooking.
In 2007, Simonetta and her husband made the quixotic decision to open a restaurant.
Without any relevant experience IT engineer Avi and novelist Simonetta put aside their careers to throw themselves (and their three young children)…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835011096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1835011098 |
| Author: | Simonetta Wenkert |
| Publisher: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Imprint: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 484g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
‘Captivating… It’s about love and family and stoicism… and the strange alchemy of a neighbourhood restaurant’
– Rachel Cooke, Observer‘A love letter to a mother-in-law and the food heritage of a closely bonded Italian family… Reading Ida At My Table replicates the feeling of eating a gorgeous, rich bowl of ragu. You will finish it feeling full, happy and content’
* Mail on Sunday *About The Author
Simonetta Wenkert
Simonetta Wenkert was born in London in 1965 of an Italian mother and Austrian-Jewish father. She is a novelist and translator, and a mother of three grown up children. Together with her husband, she runs an Italian restaurant in Queens Park called Ida.
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