num_pages: 281
description: Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany, where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions — including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur of the book's title. Gerald's idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former soviet republic. A series of hilarious misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity.James Hamilton-Paterson's first novel, "Gerontius," won the Whitbread Award. He is an acclaimed author of nonfiction books, including "Seven-Tenths," "Three Miles Down," and "Playing with Water," He currently lives in Italy.
language: English
title: Cooking with Fernet Branca
titlecomplete: Cooking with Fernet Branca (Gerald Samper, #1)
genres: Humor, Contemporary, British Literature, Fiction, Cooking, Travel, Food, Italy, Comedy, 21st Century
ratings_count: 1710
places: Italy
series: Gerald Samper 
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: Europa