My Italian Country Childhood - A Chef's Journey From the Hills of Abruzzo to the Heart of Soho

A boy from a dirt-poor farmhouse in the Italian mountains should never have ended up running one of London's most popular restaurants. Aldo Zilli's extraordinary journey began as a cook in a kitchen with no electricity or running water and took him all the way to Soho where he ended up serving royalty.With a passion to please, charm and good humour, Zilli transformed the way London restaurants were run - the famous and the infamous came to eat his food and soon they became his friends.It hasn't