Les Liaisons Culinaires - Tapa dura

What is it about Nana's two lovers, Dimitris and Damocles, that makes her relationship with each of them so expectantly delectable? Could it be the succulent dishes with which they compete so eagerly to tempt her? The 17 chapters of this book include recipes from the shores of the Aegean.

wo suitors and seventeen delicious dishes: in Athens seduction starts in the kitchen... Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats, on the same floor. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover -- Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her stomach -- each performing ever more succulent culinary feats in an effort to defeat his rival. As the dishes pile up, and the recipes -- listed in their entirety at the end of every chapter -- grow more and more mouth-watering, it becomes a bizarre and comic duel, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean, to win the consummate femme fatal.