Italy, one plate at a time

A star Beijing chef brings the foods of his native land to Chinese readers in a luminous new cookbook, Mike Peters reports.

As an Italian master chef at a top restaurant in Beijing, Marino D'Antonio enjoys few things more than sharing his country's culinary culture with Chinese who love good food.

So when a publisher in his adopted country invited him to write a book for the Chinese audience, it took the executive chef at Opera Bombana about half a second to say yes.