The Talisman of Happiness

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Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The most iconic and beloved Italian cookbook ever published—a treasury of over 1,500 definitive regional recipes that inspired the worldwide bestseller The Silver Spoon —translated for the first time in full for the American kitchen. In 1929, two years before The Joy of Cooking was published in America, and two decades before The Silver Spoon in Italy, Ada Boni wrote The Talisman of Happiness —the original must-have culinary bible for Italians. Generations of cooks have turned to "Il Talismano"