Title:
Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy / Frances Mayes.
ISBN:
9780811808422
9780767900386
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [1996]
©1996
Physical Description:
280 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful.
Contents:
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.
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.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocm34475202
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