Nicky Pellegrino

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Nicky Pellegrino discusses her latest book, 'When in Rome'.

(orion, $39.99) Real life is all very well and, of course, completely unavoidable, but sometimes you need to escape it. If going to Italy to lie on the beach and nibble at antipasto platters with your girlfriends isn’t an option, I can heartily suggest taking a bottle of red and a copy of The Villa […]

(orion $38.99) once again the stuck-at-home-with-yet-another-Vegemite-sandwich reader is transported to the charming seaside town of Triento in the south of Italy where everything tastes delicious, smells divine and oozes fruity olive oil and soft cheese. It is almost impossible to turn a single page of Nicky Pellegrino’s book and not dash to the kitchen to fry something. But where is she when […]

(Hachette, $38.99)Don’t pick up this book when you are hungry. You will eat it before you have finished reading it. The very first page has a recipe for melanzane alla parmigiana, which is a cheesy, tomato-y eggplant dish Nicky Pellegrino’s father makes. I have tasted it. I have never been the same since. It is […]

(orion, $36.99)Very early on in former Weekly Editor Nicky Pellegrino’s second novel, The Gypsy Tearoom, I developed terrible hunger pangs. And, for once, my hankering was not for uncooked chocolate brownie mixture but for Nicky’s Italian dad Dino’s melanzane alla parmigiana. I’ve been lucky enough to taste this scrumptious cheesy eggplant dish on a handful […]