Angelina's Bachelors

Sometimes the shortest distance between two people is the length of a kitchen table. . . . Far too young to be a widow, Angelina DAngelo suddenly finds herself facing a life without her beloved husband, Frank. Late one night shortly after the funeral, she makes her way down to the kitchen and pours all of her grief and anger into the only outlet she has lefther passion for cooking. In a frenzy of concentration and swift precision, she builds layer upon layer of thick, rich lasagna, braids loaves of yeasty bread, roasts plump herb-rubbed chicken; she makes so much food that she winds up delivering the spoils to the neighbors in her tight-knit Italian community in South Philadelphia. Retiree Basil Cupertino, who has just moved in with his kindly sister across the street, is positively smitten with Angelinas food. In a stroke of good fortune, Basil offers Angelina (not only husbandless but unemployed) a job cooking for himtwo meals a day, six days a...