Giulia Melucci‘s book is the perfect antidote to the obsession we are currently facing with carb-cutting, calorie-counting and food fears in America. She is a “nice Italian girl” who likes her pasta hot and her men sweet. However, in her debut book, I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI, Melucci chronicles how finding the perfect pasta dish is a lot easier than the perfect man. Melucci appeared on The Today Show and recounted some of the less-than-stellar dating situations she has endured.
Vanity Fair wrote that, “I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI proves that the cure for a broken heart is pasta.” Kirkus Reviews described it as “Giada De Laurentiis meets Candace Bushnell.”
Entertainment Weekly reviewed Melucci’s book and gave it a solid B+, which is an impressive review from one of the more discriminating publications.
Giulia Melucci, a nice Brooklyn girl and unabashed food lover (”I can count on my breasts the number of times I have missed a meal”), finds that a good man is far more elusive than a tasty homemade carbonara. I Loved, I Lost, I Made ?Spaghetti, sort of an Eat, Pray, Love with fewer passport stamps and more recipes, is wry, personable, and at times even snortingly funny. This may be no globe-?hopping journey of self-fulfillment, but you can replicate her delectable “F— You Cakes” (Melucci’s attempt to bake her way out of an especially bad ? breakup) and root for a woman who learns to nourish her own stomach — and soul — even when her heart’s been flambéed. B+
This book invoked all of the intimate sensations that can be found in the kitchen, from the zesty spice and tang of a good tomato to the sweet nuttiness of fresh cheeses, but it also brings the reader into the honesty of failed relationships and the enduring hope that single women everywhere have for finding their soul mate.
