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Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy / Frances Mayes.

Mayes, Frances, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0767900383
  • ISBN: 9780767900386
  • Physical Description: 291 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Broadway books trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1996.
Excerpts from this book appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and House beautiful.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Tuscany (Italy) > Description and travel.
Tuscany (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Mayes, Frances.
Cooking, Italian.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library DG 734.23 .M39 1996 278302 Stacks Reshelving -

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