| Description |
280 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel.
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Tuscany (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
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Mayes, Frances.
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Cooking, Italian.
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| ISBN |
0811808424 |
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9780811808422 |
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