Title:
Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy
Author:
Edition:
1st Broadway books trade pbk. ed.
Publication Date:
1997
1996
Publication Information:
New York : Broadway Books, 1997.
©1996
Physical Description:
291 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780767900386
Abstract:
A chronicle of the author's first four years in Italy, describing her purchase and restoration of an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside, her transformation of the overgrown gardens, and her discovery of the many links between the food and culture of the region.
General Note:
Originally published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1996.
Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful.
Contents:
Preface -- 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 -- Festina Tarde (make haste slowly) -- A long table under the trees -- Summer kitchen notes -- Cortona, noble city -- Rive, Maremma: into wildest Tuscany -- Turning Italian -- Green oil -- Floating world: a Winter season -- Winter kitchen notes -- Rose walk -- Sempre pietra (always stone) -- Relics of Summer -- Solleone.
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Language:
English
