Malya Nappi
Curious about cookbooks .. and their writers? Here’s another interesting life …
I bought this slim volume from 1959 as I was looking at the cook book list of Nicholas Kaye, the publishing house. But who was Malya Nappi?
She was born Anastasia Amelia Nappi in 1915 to Italian immigrants who ran a grocery store in Clerkenwell, London’s ‘Little Italy.’ The wartime Land Army records list her as a teacher of speech and drama in Torquay b…