BELLA TOSCANE
9789053337936
Description
Work's still not completely finished on Bramasole, the Tuscan house that California-based poet and bestselling author Frances Mayes bought a decade ago and has been fixing up every summer since. Nevertheless, in Bella Tuscany, she goes out--in search of Italy and Italian life. The sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun is awash with sensual discovery, from Sicilian markets with "rainbows of shining fish on ice" to the aqueous dream of Venice "shimmering in the diluted sunlight." Wherever she is, Mayes celebrates everyday rituals, such as picking wild asparagus, "dark spears poking out of the dirt ... stalks as thin as yarn" and driving through country rains, as "the green landscape smears across the windshield" for buffalo mozzarella and demijohns of sfuso--bulk wine kept fresh with a slick of olive oil on top. Mayes also ventures into the world of the locals, some "bent as a comma" and others throwing six-hour communion feasts where half a dozen cooks in a barn continually send out heaping platters of pasta with wild boar sauce, roasted lamb, and even the thigh of a giant cow--wrapping up the festivities with honeyed vin santo, grappa, and dancing to the accordion. Capturing the details that enrich the commonplace, in Bella Tuscany Mayes appears less like a visitor and more like someone discovering in Tuscany a real home and a real life. --Melissa Rossi
Productinformatie
| Auteur | Frances Mayes |
|---|---|
| Uitgever | Prometheus, Uitgeverij |
| Publicatiedatum | 01-01-1999 |
| Taal | Unknown |
| Bindwijze | paperback |
| ISBN | 9789053337936 |
| Conditie | Nieuw |
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Auteur
Frances Mayes
Bindwijze
paperback
Publicatiedatum
01-01-1999
Taal
Unknown
Uitgever
Prometheus, Uitgeverij
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