num_pages: 272
description: Abducted from his farm and sent to the estate of Duke Federico Basillione DiVincelli along with his teenage daughter Miranda, Ugo DiFonte is stunned to find himself replacing the former royal food taster and must negotiate a delicate balance between staying alive, protecting MIranda, dealing with the prince's many enemies, and holding the court together, in a novel set in sixteenth-century Italy. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Food Taster
titlecomplete: The Food Taster
characters: Ugo DiFonte
genres: Fiction, Historical, Italy, Book Club, Humor, Romance, Literature, Historical Fiction, Food
ratings_count: 540
places: Italy
publisher: Plume