Baked Stuffed Sardines

Victoria Cosford's Amore and Amaretti is a food-lover's delight: a romance, an escape and a tribute to Italian cooking all in one. Here, she describes old widower Annunzio, with whom she had to share a flat at Portoferraio while they were both working at the same restaurant. At first she is daunted by the old man, but soon she finds comfort in his gentleness and eccentricity, not to mention his baked stuff sardines …   Annunzio soaks…