Displaying 1 of 1 1997 Format: Book Author: Mayes, Frances, author. Title: Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy / Frances Mayes. Edition: 1st Broadway books trade pbk. ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Broadway Books, 1997. ©1996 Description: 291 pages ; 21 cm Summary: 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. Subjects: Mayes, Frances. Cooking, Italian. Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel. Tuscany (Italy) -- Social life and customs. Genre: Autobiographies. Notes: 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. Web Site: Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 97020218 ISBN: 9780767900386 0767900383 0811808424 9780767916066 Other Number: 36824939 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 50185 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 914.55 Mayes Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
