The Wedding Officer

ALSO BY ANTHONY CAPELLA

THE FOOD OF LOVE

^*1 Literally, “When the chicken pees.”

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^*2 A contented stomach, a forgiving heart; but a hungry stomach pardons no one.

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^*3 “The only thing your head is good for is keeping your ears apart.”

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^*4 “So you say, ‘Farewell, I’m leaving!’/Going far from what the heart clings to…/From the land where you found love…/But would you rather not come back?”

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THE WEDDING OFFICER

A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Time Warner UK hardcover edition published April 2006

Bantam Books hardcover edition / May 2007

Published by Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved

Copyright © 2006 by Anthony Capella

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Capella, Anthony.

The wedding officer : a novel of culinary seduction / Anthony Capella. —Bantam hardcover ed.

p. cm.

1. World War, 1939–1945—Italy—Fiction. 2. Cookery, Italian—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3603.A64W43 2007

813'.6—dc22

2006102089

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