What is it about Nana's two lovers, Dimitris and Damocles, that makes her relationship with each of them so expectantly delectable? Could it be the succulent dishes with which they compete so eagerly to tempt her? That infinitely seductive culinary genius that seems to speak to her of love? The irresistible appeal of their respective dishes of youvarlakia?
Here, in seventeen mouth-watering chapters, each with its own recipes, a Greek cook and man of letters transports us to the fragrant shores of the Aegean and transforms gastronomy into a metaphor for other subtle and voluptuary pleasures.