Food and love in Italy are practically inseparable. The twists of a dynamic plot sit wonderfully alongside family recipes from Italian signoras in Lydia Davydova’s debut novel “Once in Tuscany”—sunlit tiled roofs, cypresses and green valleys, handsome men, and hostesses armed with a pot of ribollita. A light yet surprisingly vivid story of how, one day in Tuscany, a Russian girl Marina and her attempt to organize a festival in a small Italian town collide with fate. What will Marina’s close acquaintance with Italy bring her? New love—or total disappointment?