A Rosie Life In Italy 4

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Having three generations of her family living under the same roof was once part of the Italian dream for Rosie. But when her party-loving whiskey-drinking poker-playing 85-year-old mother moves over from Ireland to Italy Rosie's longed for dolce vita in Umbria is anything but sweet.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With a preference for bland boiled potatoes to her daughter's Italian cooking and an aversion towards housework Rosie's mother's requirements to feel at home in the Sighing House-including a smelly deep fat-frier lots of clutter parties and a new pup-are very different to Rosie's vision.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However the most urgent thing on Rosie's to-do list is not dealing with the needs of her artist mother nor the ongoing renovation 'what now?' moments-such as electric wires in the chimney. Rosie has the more pressing issue of a backlog of twenty summer weddings to be planned now that Covid restrictions are lifted. But with vendors going bust and demands of couples going extreme Rosie needs to find a way to get through the hottest Italian summer on record without burning out or having a gelato-mountain sized melt down.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Includes 10 delicious and simple recipes including Strangled Priest and White Walnut Pasta.</em></p><p><br></p>