This book attempts to analyze the latest discoveries in sphingolipid biology and how the alteration of their metabolism leads to altered signaling events and to the development of pathobiological disorders, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, diabetes, inflammation and infectious diseases.

This book is not a cookbook. Rather it is a recipe memoire of special moments in my life in which I truly appreciated food and the art of making it. This is also a book about whom you are eating with more than a book on what you are eating. I think that eating food with those you love brings out the soul of the food in front of you, letting you appreciate the true privilege of sharing it. Thus, this book is about the people with whom I share the food, and describes the story behind the recipe and when I tasted it for the very first time.