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Keeping the Feast

One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy

by Paula Butturini
Renée Raudman
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Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and married in Rome four years later. 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 and 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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    March 8, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9781400196227
      • File size: 211760 KB
      • Duration: 07:21:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      After journalist Paula Butturini's husband, John, a foreign correspondent, was shot while covering the collapse of Romania's communist regime, he endured a long recovery process in Italy, first to heal his physical wounds and later the mental ones. Narrator Renée Raudman adopts an appropriately somber tone as she describes the painful events that took place in the couple's lives. Emotion is evident in her voice as she describes Paula's struggle to provide the support John needed during his recovery--support that included the preparation of many meals that had also provided comfort to Paula during difficult moments in her childhood. The vivid descriptions of various foods will surely be of interest to food enthusiasts. S.E.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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