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A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.

Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their Italian paradise to Warsaw and while reporting on an uprising in Romania, John was shot and nearly killed by sniper fire. Although he recovered from his physical wounds in less than a year, the process of healing had just begun. Unable to regain his equilibrium, he sank into a deep ...

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A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.

Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their Italian paradise to Warsaw and while reporting on an uprising in Romania, John was shot and nearly killed by sniper fire. Although he recovered from his physical wounds in less than a year, the process of healing had just begun. Unable to regain his equilibrium, he sank into a deep sadness that reverberated throughout their relationship. It was the abrupt end of what they'd known together, and the beginning of a new phase of life neither had planned for. All of a sudden, Paula was forced to reexamine her marriage, her husband, and herself.

Paula began to reconsider all of her previous assumptions about healing. She discovered that sometimes patience can be a vice, anger a virtue. That sometimes it is vital to make demands of the sick, that they show signs of getting better. And she rediscovered the importance of the most fundamental of human rituals: the daily sharing of food around the family table.

A universal story of hope and healing, Keeping the Feast is an account of one couple's triumph over tragedy and illness, and a celebration of the simple rituals of life, even during the worst life crises. Beautifully written and tremendously moving, Paula's story is a testament to the extraordinary sustaining powers of food and love, and to the stubborn belief that there is always an afterward, there is always hope.

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Mika Brzezinski
…blunt and brave…Keeping the Feast shares with Julie Powell's Julie & Julia and Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love the insight that food can jump-start a journey toward solace. Can food cure clinical depression? Of course not. But the act of cooking and eating together—of keeping the feast—bolsters Butturini, and she in turn keeps Tagliabue alive. The real glue in this marriage scarred by tragedy is not Butturini's cooking but Butturini herself.
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A former overseas bureau journalist recalls the tragic circumstances that befell her husband and the European city that repaired their broken spirit. Butturini and her husband John Tagliabue returned to Rome in 1992 in a desperate attempt to rekindle the vibrant, happy life they'd embarked upon after falling in love there seven years prior. Both were foreign news reporters: The author was an East European correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Tagliabue was the Warsaw bureau chief for the New York Times. Butturini fondly revisits her travels to Rome in her early 30s, entranced by the stunning abundance of culture and embracing "the magic of honest food." She and Tagliabue had been dispatched to Prague in late 1989 to report on the anti-Communist revolution, but the assignment was a violent disaster and the start of the couple's "private tornado." Butturini was beaten repeatedly in the street by anti-terrorist police, and her husband took a sniper's bullet, shattering his pelvis. Long months of rehabilitation followed, as did a hepatitis B diagnosis and a bout of clinical depression, spurred on by the drowning death of Butturini's mother. Recalling their everlasting love of Italy, they returned to Rome for much-needed healing, reinvigoration and the "normalcy" that had so lushly enveloped them years prior. Though Tagliabue's extended illness tested her patience, a new life awaited them both. The author tempers both of their complicated, depressive family histories with memories of Sunday family dinners, homemade soups and pizzas, and childhood Christmases. "In our family the stomach was only slightly less important than the brain," she writes, "and according to my mother, clearly moretrustworthy and often more intelligent."A touching, if melancholy, feast for the senses, with a dash of inspiration for hearts in need of nourishment.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781594488979
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/18/2010
  • Pages: 259
  • Product dimensions: 5.86 (w) x 8.58 (h) x 1.07 (d)

Meet the Author

Paula Butturni has worked in overseas bureaus in London, Madrid, Rome, and Warsaw for United Press International and the Chicago Tribune.
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  • Posted February 6, 2010

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    More than food, a memoir about the strenth of family devotion.

    Paula Butturini's memoir Keeping the Feast is more than a true story about a couple's enduring love set among a delicious Italian background full of food and flavor; it's a story of hope, and the bond of family, and the anguish of a person helplessly afflicted with depression.

    Paula met her second husband John in Italy. They married when she was in her late thirties. Both news correspondents, both with strong Italian-family backgrounds, Paula and John were meant for each other, and their love endured trials many of us cannot fathom. In 1989 Paula was beaten senseless by riot police in Czechoslovakia, just weeks before her and John are to be married. Barely surviving her own trauma, it is only a handful of weeks later when John is shot by a sniper in Romania. Undergoing several surgeries, John barely survives. The couple land back in Italy to recoup, only John suffers a devastating depression that threatens to tear their marriage apart. Paula takes refuge in her Italian markets, diving into her family recipes, the ingredients which held her together as a child as she hopes they can hold her family together now.

    Keeping the Feast is marketed as a memoir about the tribulations a couple goes through, and how food kept them together. But I can't help but look beyond the ingrediants, the never-ending succulent lists of Italian market-wares and herbs. Paula's own mother suffered from depression, it was something Paula herself feared her whole life. To have her husband, the love of her life, afflicted by the same disease, was terrifying and my heart goes out to her. Not everyone understands the crippling devastation that is depression, the way it can leach into your life, but Paula did, she saw it first hand and she vowed to never let it bury her. She dealt with her husband's depression, first with silent fear, and then with anger and outrage, and even though he suffered it more than once in their life together, he always recovered, and she was always there.

    Keeping The Feast is a heartbreaking, beautiful memoir of the strength of family devotion, tied together by the delicious façade of Italian ruins, and the mouth-watering dishes of Italian food. I thank Paula for sharing her story, and hope we can all be as strong.

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  • Posted April 8, 2010

    Keep on Feasting, A touching story of life

    Keep on Feasting is a difficult story, written beautifully.
    I wish I could share my life story in the same way; bringing people, places, food and moments alive for people who did not share them with me.

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  • Posted March 19, 2010

    a beautiful memoir

    If you come from a background where delicious food combined with socializing around the table is a way of life, you'll love this book. It has inspired me to start Sunday dinner with my family as I had growing up. This couple went through more in a few years than anyone should in a lifetime. There's food, love, tragedy & history - beautifully written!

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    Beautiful story

    Paula takes a difficult topic and engages the reader to have a better understanding of depression. Growing up in the 50s it seems every family had it's secrets and how we handled them is what makes us who we are today, warts and all.

    The food memories are great.

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  • Posted May 17, 2010

    What A Feast!

    It is the best book I have read about a couple dealing with severe depression in a partner. It is served up by Paula Butturini in direct, disarming prose. It provides substantive, satisfying portions of how they worked through their debilitating problems, how the culture and food of Rome Italy contributed to their healing, and, ultimately how their lives were saved by this combination of kitchen and commitment. It is brilliant. I recommend it without reservation and have even given it as a gift.

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