A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.

Foreword
List of Characters

1. Ragazzi

2. The Redhead

3. On The Street

4. The Everyday Grind

5. Four For Lunch

6. Piadina

7. Connections Made

8. Ravioli Daydreams

9. Sparkle

10. The Dish Room

11. Secrets

12. Saturday In Hell

13. Nathan

14. Lazy Sunday Morning

15. Entourage

16. Memory Of The Heart

17. The X Street Mafia

18. The Lottery

19. Caramel

20. Change

21. Mamma

22. Back To School

23. Now Or Never

24. Breaking Point

25. Encounters

26. No Matter What

27. Leftovers

28. La Luna

29. Between The Lines

30. The Outcasts Society

31. Lunch With Max

32. Three Tables

33. Making Piadine

34. Making Passatelli

35. Making Apple Fritters

36. In Threes

37. Sister Clara

38. Two Dates

39. Outcasts And Vagabonds

40. First Date

41. Secrets Shared

42. Fast Food And Late Nights

43. Is Something Burning?

44. A Proposal

45. Baggage

46. Exorcising The Past

47. Salt To Taste

48. A Little Advice

49. Just A Second

50. The Time We Have

51. 'Doptermonster Blues

52. Fifteen Minutes

53. Where The Truth Lies

54. 'Riss And Tris

55. Empty

56. The Adolescent Army

57. Rice And Roses

58. The Box Of Hopes And Dreams

59. Green Light

60. Whiplash

61. Tequila Courage

62. At The Zoo

63. Descendents

64. People Have It Off

65. In His Court

66. Home

67. The Accidental Chef

68. Tribes

69. Office Hours

70. Weekiversary

71. Now I Know

72. Screw All The Rest

73. Moonset

74. Tell Me When

75. Alone With A Boy

76. Bring Him Home

77. The Aftermath

78. Always Right

79. First Day

80. Weird

81. Normal

82. Something To Look Forward To

83. Broken Wing

84. Lord Love A Duck

85. The Link

86. Three For Coffee

87. How To Make A Good Sauce

88. It's Kinda Nice

89. News

90. Scars

91. Karma

92. Cazzo

93. Making It Right

94. Memories And Plans

95. What He Wanted

96. Two Dates At Formoli

97. Ragu And Regrets

98. Behind Enemy Lines

99. You Only Turn Eighteen Once

100. Maybe The Future

101. The Big Day

102. Alla Fine

Recipes

Acknowledgments

About the Author 453

Also by J. Scott Coatsworth 455