Anthony Capella Books In Order

The Food of Love

Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides there’s only one sure fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who’s handsome, young and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi it’s his shy friend Bruno who is the chef. But Tomasso is the one who knows how to get the girls, and when Laura comes to dinner he persuades Bruno to help him with the charade. It works: the meal is a sensual feast, Laura is utterly seduced and Tomasso falls in lust. But it is Bruno, the real chef who has secretly prepared every dish Laura has eaten, who falls deeply and unrequitedly in love. A delicious tale of Cyrano de Bergerac style culinary seduction, but with sensual recipes instead of love poems.

The Wedding Officer

In the sumptuous tradition of Chocolat and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, and already optioned for a major motion picture, comes a magical tale of romantic passion, culinary delight and Italy. Captain James Gould arrives in wartime Naples assigned to discourage marriages between British soldiers and their gorgeous Italian girlfriends. But the innocent young officer is soon distracted by an intoxicating young widow who knows her way around a kitchen…
Livia Pertini is creating feasts that stun the senses with their succulence ruby colored San Marzana tomatoes, glistening anchovies, and delectable new potatoes encrusted with the black volcanic earth of of Campania and James is about to learn that his heart may rank higher than his orders. For romance can be born of the sweet and spicy passions of food and love and time spent in the kitchen can be as joyful and exciting as the banquet of life itself!From the Hardcover edition.

The Various Flavours of Coffee

From the internationally bestselling author of The Wedding Officer comes a novel whose stunning blend of exotic adventure and erotic passion will intoxicate every reader who tastes of its remarkable delights. When a woman gives a man coffee, it is a way of showing her desire. Abyssinian proverb It was a cup of coffee that changed Robert Wallis’s life and a cup of very bad coffee at that. The impoverished poet is sitting in a London coffeehouse contemplating an uncertain future when he meets Samuel Pinker. The owner of Castle Coffee offers Wallace the very last thing a struggling young artiste in fin de si cle England could possibly want: a job. But the job Wallis accepts employing his palate and talent for words to compose a vocabulary of coffee based on its many subtle and elusive flavors is only the beginning of an extraordinary adventure in which Wallis will experience the dizzying heights of desire and the excruciating pain of loss. As Wallis finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his coworker, Pinker s spirited suffragette daughter Emily, both will discover that you cannot awaken one set of senses without affecting all the others. Their love is tested when Wallis is dispatched on a journey to North Africa in search of the legendary Arab mocca. As he travels to coffee s fabled birthplace and learns the fiercely guarded secrets of the trade Wallis meets Fikre, the defiant, seductive slave of a powerful coffee merchant, who serves him in the traditional Abyssinian coffee ceremony. And when Fikre dares to slip Wallis a single coffee bean, the mysteries of coffee and forbidden passion intermingle and combine to change history and fate.

Chemistry for Beginners

Dr. Steven J. Fisher thinks he has love down to an exact science. A brilliant young biochemist whose closest friend is a bonobo ape named Lucy, Dr. Fisher spends his time in an Oxford research lab studying org*asms watching them, listening to them, analyzing them in his quest to find the first cure for female sexual dysfunction, a Via*gra like pill for women. But for all his candor about human sexuality in the lab, he is really a shy scientist, a beginner in the ways of love.

Dr. Fisher and his research team are weeks away from launching the drug when Annie a brilliant but org*asmically challenged Ph.D. student joins his study as a test subject. For the first time, Dr. Fisher’s results don’t seem to add up. And as he and Annie bond over IP addresses and romantic poetry, Bunsen burner lit meals created through molecular gastronomy, Pink Floyd, and sessions of Swamps and Sorcerers, he has to ask himself, What scientific hypothesis can explain this new data let alone the change in his own feelings?

A sweet, witty romantic comedy that takes in everything from evolutionary theory to the odd/even rule of Star Trek movies, Chemistry for Beginners gets to the heart of how men and women view each other and shows us that sometimes even simple biology is all about chemistry.