In this book you can learn more about praline overall and how to make some yourself.

Chocolates stand high in the course. Home-made, with select ingredients and fine instinct, they are enticing tidbits of the finest kind. Unskilled ones become thanks to the clear instructions quickly true Chocolatiers. Advancers are glad about the tempting prescriptions of the world-best chocolate doers.

The photos in the book are from Maja Smend.

A recommended book for chocolate lover and if you want to become one yourself.

In an only recently found suitcase one discovered the favorite prescriptions taken down by her or her butler. The findings have been now published in the cookbooks Maria Callas – La Divina in Cucina which is an book for all fans of Callas and friends of good kitchen. Bruno Tosi, executor and founder of “Associazione Culturale Maria Callas” discovered in a suitcase theirs – partly handwritten – prescription collection from the whole world.

Not only in Italy, also on her numerous voyages all over the world Callas collected recipes of culinary lusciousness like ” cheese cream with white truffles ” or “oysters in the dough coat ” which Callas did taste on the luxury yacht from Onassis. Do you wonder about the outstanding food Callas did have in Harry’s Bar in Venice, Savini in Milan or Chez Maxim’s in Paris? With this book you can travel back in time to experience those great restaurants once again.

Many pictures unpublished up to now of her appearances, in the private sphere or as a star of the High Society. In addition private anecdotes of prominent road companions come like Luchino Visconti and Luciano Pavarotti, up to now unpublished photos and a 70-minute CD with the nicest Callas arias. La Divina in Cucina has been published by Südwest which is part of Random House .