Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy

Summary: Applies a poet's sensibility, a traveler's eye, and a cook's palate to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside, where the author began restoring an abandoned villa.

Item details

ISBN: 0811808424
ISBN: 9780811808422
ISBN: 0767900383
ISBN: 9780767900386
ISBN: 9780767916066
ISBN: 0767916069
ISBN: 0767902807
ISBN: 9780767902809
Physical Description: print
280 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, ©1996.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful.

Formatted Contents Note:

Bramare: (Archaic) To Yearn For -- A House and the Land it Takes Two Oxen Two Days to Plow -- Sister Water, Brother Fire -- The Wild Orchard -- Whir of the Sun -- (Make Haste Slowly) / Festina Tarde -- A Long Table Under the Trees -- Summer Kitchen Notes -- Cortona, Noble City -- Riva, Maremma: Into Wildest Tuscany -- Turning Italian -- Green Oil -- Floating World: A Winter Season -- Winter Kitchen Notes -- Rose Walk -- (Always Stone) / Sempre Pietra -- Relics of Summer -- Solleone.

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Subject:

Mayes, Frances
Tuscany (Italy) Description and travel
Tuscany (Italy) Social life and customs
Cooking, Italian Tuscan style
Mayes, Frances
Cooking, Italian Tuscan style
Manners and customs
Travel
Italy Tuscany
American authors
Italian cooking
Tuscany (Italy) Description
Tuscany (Italy) Social life and customs

Genre:

Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.

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