Download or read book For the Love of Wood/For the Love of Food written by Joanne Ferreri and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two books in one! Experience growing up in a loving and boisterous Italian family from Brooklyn. Can you imagine having the vision to see a car in a block of wood, a church steeple in a burned out Roman candle or an entire wall-to-wall library from discarded window shutters? The only person I ever met that could was my Dad. ??? I want to publicly thank both sets of my grandparents for coming to America on what was nothing less than blind faith, exactly when they did and enduring the hardships that I can only imagine; or else I wouldnt be here right now.However, My Mom is the real reason Im here.