Sophia Loren Books List
Sophia Loren Books 2016
Sophia Loren loves hearty Italian dishesDecades before we had endure the endless stream of celebrity cookbooks from major and minor stars, Italian film actress was in the business of writing recipe books.Loren’s food books definitely count as celebrity cookbooks – after all, she was one of the world’s most famous people in the 1950s and 1960s – but the actress has a different relationship with food to most of us. One doesn’t truly appreciate food until you have gone without it and we can be assured that Loren’s passion for hearty Italian cooking is genuine.Born in 1934, Loren’s family moved to Naples where they endured the German occupation of the city and an appalling lack of food. Even after the Allied Forces arrived in October 1943, the Neapolitans continued on the verge of starvation, scavenging for food in fields and along the shoreline, looking for anything that could be turned into a soup or broth. Read Norman Lewis’ to learn more. Naples is famed for many dishes, especially sea food, and is credited with originating Margherita Pizza in the 16th century.