Carmela D’Amore, explores her Sicilian heritage and finds hertrue cultural identity through the Italian cooking styleof Cucina Povera. Readers are taken on her journey of self-discovery andacceptance, as she remembers and recreates her belovedfamily recipes from generations past. Carmela revisits her teenage years as a Sicilian Australiangrowing up in Melbourne’s South Eastern suburbs and thestruggles she faced, straddling two very different cultures. She shares the emotional journey she undertookto reconnect with her cultural origins and embraceher Australian identity. She finds inner joy and peace, revisiting childhoodmemories, good and bad, and reigniting the flame ofher Sicilian culture. In the book, Carmela comes face to face with many ofthe struggles she encountered navigating a clash ofcultures and the intergenerational challenges withinher own close-knit family. In her journey to understand and embrace Australian life, Carmela illustrates how she became comfortable in herSicilian and Australian ‘skins’, to embrace her newcultural identity that remembers the past and has a futurerich with possibility and potential. Bringing over 40 years’ expertise with the Sicilian cookingtechnique of Cucina Povera to Carmela’s Cucina Povera, she has placed her own, modern twist on Cucina Poverarecipes which she has masterfully recreated –and she shows a generosity in sharing over75 soulful recipes with readers. | Carmela's Cucina Povera by Carmela D'Amore, Paperback | Indigo Chapters