Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayes, Frances
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.