Winner of the Guild of Food Writers` First Book Award and the André Simon Food Book Award 2015”`Five Quarters` stands out as particularly considered and evocative... Impeccably researched and transportive, it`s a proper read, rather than a quick flick.” AA Gill”Of course I thought Rome was glorious, but I didn`t want to stay. A month, three at most, then I`d take a train back to Sicily to finish the clockwise journey I`d interrupted, before moving even further southwards...”Instead, captivated by the exhilarating life of Testaccio, the wedge-shaped quarter of Rome that centres round the old slaughterhouse and the bustling food market, Rachel decided to rent a flat and live there. Thus began an Italian adventure that`s turned into a brand new life. `Five Quarters` charts a year in Rachel`s small kitchen, shopping, cooking, eating and writing, capturing a uniquely domestic picture of life in this vibrant, charismatic city.Combining Rachel`s love of Italian food and cooking with a strong nostalgia for home and memories of growing up in England, this is a cookbook to read in bed as well as to use in the kitchen.