Based on an old French folktate, the story is about how three hungry soldiers outsmart the selfish and miserly people living in a village so that they find themselves making the soldiers a feast.
RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1975. Strega Nona, or Grandmother Witch, is a witch doctor who helps the people in her village with her remedies. Her new apprentice, Big Anthony, doesn’t know how to stop the production of her magic pasta.