Friday, March 19, 2010

How Cooking Helped Save the Marriage of Traumatized War Correspondents

Foreign correspondents Paula Butturini and her husband John Tagliabue suffered bullets, police beatings and a battle with depression that almost tore their marriage apart. Paula's new book is about how cooking and eating together got them through. She writes about eating's capacity to trigger the brain to hope and the comfort of daily routines.

KEEPING THE FEAST
One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy

By Paula Butturini
259 pp. Riverhead Books. $25.95.

Food can't cure clinical depression, but it can "jump-start a journey toward solace."

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