The ingredients of Grace Sabato's life are an extraordinary mixture of love, magic, music and myth . . . and food, always food. Her childhood senses are infused with the pungent odours of garlic, expresso and baccala, a grandmother's bizarre rituals of blood and tears, reminiscences of a distant land where she has never lived and the resonant melodies of a language she cannot speak. Packing a suitcase that once carried the hopes of another far from home, she sets out on a pilgrimage of the heart . . .
