Recipes are like magic potions. They promise transformations,’ says Bee Wilson in her introduction to Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake (Faber, £12.99), a collection of classic authors’ recipes.
When people from the states think of visiting Italy, the definitive tour includes the big three: Venice, Florence, and Rome. Lesser known is the region south of Turin known as Langhe in Piemonte ...