Among their many pleasures, Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti novels have
long been celebrated for their mouth-watering descriptions of food. Multicourse
lunches at home with Paola and the children, snacks grabbed at a bar with a glas
s of wine or two, a quick sandwich during a busy day, or a working lunch at a ne
ighborhood trattoria in the course of an investigation have all delighted Brunet
ti, as well as Leon's readers and reviewers. And then there's the coffee, the pa
stries, the wine, and the grappa.
