Rachel Roddy is a Brit abroad who for many years has been writing about Italian food from her home in the Testaccio area of Rome. There she has immersed herself in all that ‘real’ Italian food has to offer. She shares her insights into the food of everyday Roman life in her weekly recipe column in the Guardian and her three (so far) Italian cookbooks. 

Rachel will be talking with Angela about how her love of Italian food mixes with a strong nostalgia for home and memories of growing up in England. They will discuss seasonality, market shopping, family cooking, and just what it is that makes Italian food and culture so connected. 

Angela and Rachel will be signing books for sale on the evening: Angela Clutton’sSeasoning – How to Cook and Celebrate the Seasons (published March this year); and Rachel Roddy’s multi-award winning debut, Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome, which has just been reissued in a special edition to mark its tenth anniversary. 

Entry is free to all those with tickets to the evening’s double bill of Il segreto di Susanna and Pagliacci.