Les Liaisons Culinaires

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One woman, two suitors and seventeen delicious dishes: in Athens seduction starts in the kitchen...Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats, on the same floor. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover - Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her stomach - each performing ever more succulent culinary feats in an effort to defeat his rival. As the dishes pile up, and the recipes - listed in their entirety at the end of every chapter - grow more and more mouth-watering, it becomes a bizarre and comic duel, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean, to win the consummate femme fatal.

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Delightfully written * Canberra Times *
This is the most delicious book that you will ever read * The Times *
A curvaceous little tale of a pair of suitors, Dimitris and Damocles, who vie for the favours of their mutual mistress through the medium of the mezze... Call it culinary onanism for Greek gastronomes. And, incidentally, the recipes are terrific -- Elizabeth Luard * Good Book Guide *
If you are even just a tiny bit of a gourmand, and have a mischievous streak, surrender yourself to Andreas Staikos' amusing novel... the language is beautiful and lively, the love affair passionate and the recipes appetising * L'Humanit *

Author Bio

Andreas Staikos, an Athenian, was born in 1944. He has written and directed several works for theatre and has also translated into Greek works by Marivaux, Moliere and other French classics from the eighteenth centuries. Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife teaches English language and literature in Athens and works as a translator.