Nell Ferraro is thirty-three, a marketing strategist in Brooklyn, and the kind of Italian-American who grew up with the culture deliberately left behind. She doesn't speak the language, she barely knows her father's family.
When a wooden recipe box arrives from her grandmother Giulia in Calabria, Nell writes back to say thank you. What she doesn't expect is to find a relationship and a history she didn't know was possible.
The Olive Table is a story about food and memories, about the things families carry and the things they set down, and about two women who find each other across distance, language, and generations through the patient act of writing letters.