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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.
Bramare: (Archaic) to yearn gor -- 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.
Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares and House beautiful.