Anne Pia - Magnaccioni: My Food... My Italy

Tickets £3

This is a live, in-person event.

Location: Christ Church Centre, 6a Morningside Road, EH10 4DD

Join us for an evening of celebrating food, poetry and Italian culture with Anne Pia and her delicious new book, Magnaccioni!. Anne will be in conversation with Fiona Richmond - Head of Regional Food at Scotland Food & Drink.

About the Book

Magnaccioni (Roman dialect): people who live to eat well.

I know no other word that captures that rare gift, that supremely basic human quality of eating with mind, eyes and heart and radiating uncontainable pleasure in so doing.

Writing as a passionate food aficionada, Anne Pia has created a convivial and open-hearted cookery book that invites you into her kitchen. In Magnaccioni, she shares her own family recipes and the food she has enjoyed in Italy based on la cucina povera, la cucina di terra – the use of fresh produce and simple ingredients to create sumptuous, joyful feasts.

Get ready to listen to Italian music, pour a glass of wine and enjoy cooking with Anne. Join her in becoming magnaccioni!

About the Author

Dr. Anne Pia, poet, essayist, translator lives in Edinburgh. She is the grandchild of Italian immigrants and was raised surrounded by the culture, traditions and dialect of southern Italy. Anne’s work focuses on identity, immigration, language, otherness and sexuality. Her creative memoir Language of My Choosing was shortlisted for the Saltire Award for Best New Book of 2017. In 2018, Anne was awarded the Premio Flaiano Italianistica: La Cultura Italiana nel Mondo.The Italian translation Ho Scelto La Mia Lingua was published in 2018 together with her first poetry collection, Transitory. She is a winner of the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Flash Fiction Competition 2021.

Her new book, Magnaccioni My Food My Italy is a glorious celebration in poetic prose and recipes of a part of Italy, of a philosophy, culture and way of life which she shares with an infectious joy.