La Dolce Vita: Sweet Dreams and Chocolate Memories

Isabel Coe’s La Dolce Vita is a rich and engaging narrative, the story of a family expressed through their shared and continuing love of chocolate. Often remarkable anecdotes are intertwined with sumptuous chocolate recipes passed down through four generations of women. Whether it’s her great grandmother Omama’s nutty Weinacht Guezi or her grandmother Nonna’s Crema di Castagne, her mother’s rich, rum-laced Chocolate Mousse or Isabel’s own extravagant Saffron-infused Mendiants with Crus…