Food of the Gods

How hard can research be when it takes place in Italy and France and involves sampling the local food and wine?

Kiwi novelist Nicky Pellegrino draws on her Italian heritage for what she describes as “feasts of food and love”, the latest being The Italian Wedding. With a home in Provence, Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm Trilogy, has ranged the shores of the Mediterranean for her research - from bouillabaisse in Marseille to za’atar in Lebanon.