About the book: 2005 / 35-year-old Tressa, a cookbook author, marries a man she doesn’t love. On her wedding day, her mother gives Tressa a recipe book that her grandmother, Irishwoman Bernardine Nolan, bequeathed to her. To escape from the routine of family life and minor everyday troubles, Tressa turns to her grandmother’s notes, which contain, in addition to culinary recipes, the history of the 60-year marriage of Bernardina and Seamus Nolan. It turns out that the ideal marriage, which she considered the union of her grandparents to be, was originally built on a relationship without love. As Tressa discovers Bernardina's secrets, she begins to realize that true love must be learned..