Mayes, Frances
Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy / Frances Mayes. - 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. - New York : Broadway Books, 1997. - 280 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1996. Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful.
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.
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
0767900383 (pbk.)
9780767900386
97020218
Mayes, Frances
Cookery, Italian.
Cuisine italienne.
Tuscany (Italy)--Description and travel.
Tuscany (Italy)--Social life and customs.
Toscane (Italie)--Descriptions et voyages.
Toscane (Italie)--Murs et coutumes.
DG734.23 / .M38 1997
945.5 May 15
Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy / Frances Mayes. - 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. - New York : Broadway Books, 1997. - 280 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1996. Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful.
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.
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
0767900383 (pbk.)
9780767900386
97020218
Mayes, Frances
Cookery, Italian.
Cuisine italienne.
Tuscany (Italy)--Description and travel.
Tuscany (Italy)--Social life and customs.
Toscane (Italie)--Descriptions et voyages.
Toscane (Italie)--Murs et coutumes.
DG734.23 / .M38 1997
945.5 May 15