GAB TALKS with Elaine Bapis, author of Valter ...

Bapis shares her five plus years collaboration with Valter, on this beautifully illustrated coffee-table book, wonderful historical context and prose, and includes over 50 recipes. Bapis collaboration with Valter involved "typing" while he talks, paying close attention, and keeping his animated voice alive throughout the pages of this book. She has combined her training in cultural history with her culinary background, growing up in a "farm-to-table" family when gardening and cooking were simply ways of life.