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A Thousand Days in Tuscany

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565125908
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Tuscany written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American chef Marlena de Blasi and her Venetian husband, Fernando, married rather late in life. In search of the rhythms of country living, the couple moves to a barely renovated former stable in Tuscany with no phone, no central heating, and something resembling a playhouse kitchen. They dwell among two hundred villagers, ancient olive groves, and hot Etruscan springs. In this patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio collide, there is much to feed de Blasi's two passions--food and love. We accompany the couple as they harvest grapes, gather chestnuts, forage for wild mushrooms, and climb trees in the cold of December to pick olives, one by one. Their routines are not that different from those of villagers centuries earlier. They are befriended by the mesmeric Barlozzo, a self-styled village chieftain. His fascinating stories lead de Blasi more deeply inside the soul of Tuscany. Together they visit sacred festivals and taste just-pressed olive oil, drizzled over roasted country bread, and squash blossoms, battered and deep-fried and sprayed with sea-salted water. In a cauldron set over a wood fire, they braise beans in red wine, and a stew of wild boar simmers overnight in the ashes of their hearth. Barlozzo shares his knowledge of Italian farming traditions, ancient health potions, and artisanal food makers, but he has secrets he doesn't share, and one of them concerns the beautiful Floriana, whose illness teaches Marlena that happiness is truly a choice. Like the pleasurable tastes and textures of a fine meal, A Thousand Days in Tuscany is as satisfying as it is enticing. The author's own recipes are included.

A Thousand Days in Tuscany : a Bittersweet Adventure

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Tuscany : a Bittersweet Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a forgotten patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio collide, Marlena de Blasi settles with her Venetian husband, Fernando, in search of a new life. The routines they establish are not that different from those of villagers centuries earlier. They wake at dawn to harvest grapes, gather chestnuts, forage for wild mushrooms. And they climb trees in the cold of December to pick olives. Yet it is the friendship of the mesmeric Barlozzo, a self-styled village chieftain of sorts, that leads them deep into the heart of Tuscany. Barlozzo shares his knowledge of Italian farming traditions, ancient health potions and artisanal food makers. This real-life memoir (plus recipes) is the sequel to the acclaimed A Thousand Days in Venice.

A Thousand Days in Venice

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1616202750
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Venice written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two grown sons good-bye, and moved to Venice to marry “the stranger,” as she calls Fernando. This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn’t even know she was missing.

Dolce E Salata

Author : Marlena De Blasi
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741147582
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Dolce E Salata written by Marlena De Blasi and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, these are the further adventures of Marlena and Fernando and their experiences as they move to a small village in Tuscany. Another delicious combination of authentic Italian life, food, recipes, love and memoir.

A Thousand Days in Tuscany

Author : Marlena De Blasi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Tuscany written by Marlena De Blasi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the village of San Casciano dei Bagni friendships have ripened over many a glorious meal. It is here that American chef Marlena de Blasi and her Venetian husband, Fernando set out to discover the ingredients of well lived life.

A Thousand Days in Venice

Author : Marlena De Blasi
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565123212
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Venice written by Marlena De Blasi and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of the chef and food writer from the beginning of her relationship with Fernando through her move from St. Louis to Venice to marry him, and recounts her efforts to adjust to her marriage and to her new country.

A Thousand Days in Venice

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202750
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Venice written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two grown sons good-bye, and moved to Venice to marry “the stranger,” as she calls Fernando. This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn’t even know she was missing.

Going Places

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069385X
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

To Florence con amore. 90 ways to love the city

Author : Jane Fortune
Publisher : TheFlorentinePress
ISBN 13 : 8890243481
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book To Florence con amore. 90 ways to love the city written by Jane Fortune and published by TheFlorentinePress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From famous frescos and family restaurants to meditative spots that soothe the soul, To Florence ... reveals unsung treasures and fascinating cultural gems. ... intimate collection of "must-sees" is an indispensable guide ..."--Back cover

Food Lit

Author : Melissa Brackney Stoeger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610693760
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Food Lit written by Melissa Brackney Stoeger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

The Lady in the Palazzo

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1565126483
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Lady in the Palazzo written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she and her husband search for a home in this city on a hill—finding one that turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo. Along the way, de Blasi befriends an array of colorful characters, including cooks and counts and shepherds and a lone violinist, cooking her way into the hearts of her Umbrian neighbors. Brimming with life and kissed by romance, The Lady in the Palazzo perfectly captures the essence of a singular place and offers up a feast—and the recipes to prepare it!—for readers of all stripes.

That Summer in Sicily

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345513339
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book That Summer in Sicily written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily that she finds, accidentally, one summer while traveling with her husband, Fernando. There de Blasi is befriended by Tosca, the patroness of the villa, an elegant and beautiful woman-of-a-certain-age who recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince of Sicily descended from the French nobles of Anjou. Sicily is a land of contrasts: grandeur and poverty, beauty and sufferance, illusion and candor. In a luminous and tantalizing voice, That Summer in Sicily re-creates Tosca’s life, from her impoverished childhood to her fairy-tale adoption and initiation into the glittering life of the prince’s palace, to the dawning and recognition of mutual love. But when Prince Leo attempts to better the lives of his peasants, his defiance of the local Mafia’s grim will to maintain the historical imbalance between the haves and the have-nots costs him dearly. The present-day narrative finds Tosca sharing her considerable inherited wealth with a harmonious society composed of many of the women–now widowed–who once worked the prince’s land alongside their husbands. How the Sicilian widows go about their tasks, care for one another, and celebrate the rituals of a humble, well-lived life is the heart of this book. Showcasing the same writerly gifts that made bestsellers of A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, That Summer in Sicily, and de Blasi’ s marvelous storytelling, remind us that in order to live a rich life, one must embrace both life’s sorrow and its beauty. Here is an epic drama that takes readers from Sicily’s remote mountains to chaotic post-war Palermo, from the intricacies of forbidden love to the havoc wreaked by Sicily’s eternally bewildering culture.

The Passionate Olive

Author : Carol Firenze
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030748940X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Passionate Olive written by Carol Firenze and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four thousand years, the olive tree has been a symbol of abundance, peace, and longevity. Gifted by a goddess, revered by ancient cultures, and protected by emperors, the olive tree and its precious fruit have played important roles in civilization. Dubbed “liquid gold” by Homer, olive oil has been used for food, medicine, magic, beauty, and divine rituals. Baseball star Joe DiMaggio is even said to have soaked his bat in olive oil. And while it is no longer drawn upon to treat leprosy or massage elephants, the use of this versatile product is growing by leaps and bounds around the world. The Passionate Olive is the ultimate guide to this natural marvel. Along with olive legends and fascinating history, Carol Firenze shares the myriad practical uses of olive oil through the telling of her favorite family stories and by offering unique formulas and recipes. Restore luster to your pearls . . . curb your cat’s hair-ball problems . . . silence squeaky doors hinges . . . soothe your sore throat and dry lips . . . replace artery-clogging butter in your favorite dishes with . . . can you guess? The Passionate Olive reveals the secrets of how to enhance your life, love, and health with olive oil and merits a front-and-center spot among your most cherished books. It makes a beautiful gift, too, for just about everyone and every occasion. In fact, you and your friends will want to keep The Passionate Olive and a bottle of olive oil in your kitchen, your bathroom, and even your bedroom.

More Book Lust

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570616558
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book More Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re searching for the perfect read for yourself or for a friend, More Book Lust offer eclectic recommendations unlike those in any other reading guide available. In this followup to the bestselling Book Lust, popular librarian, Nancy Pearl, offers a fresh collection of 1,000 reading recommendations in more than 120 thematic, intelligent and wholly entertaining reading lists. For the friend wanting to leave her job: "Living Your Dream" offers good armchair dreaming books about people who have left stodgy jobs to do what they love. Are you a budding chef? "Fiction For Foodies" includes books that sneak in a recipe or two along with a tantalizing plot. For the James Bond wannabe: "Crime is a Globetrotter" features crime novels set in various locations around the world such as Tibet, Sweden, and Sicily. In the book’s introduction, Pearl jokes, “If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, ‘Hi, I’m Nancy P., and I’m a readaholic.” Booklist magazine plays off this obsession while echoing a sentiment of Nancy Pearl’s fans everywhere: “A self-confessed ‘readaholic,’ Pearl lets us benefit from her addiction. May she never seek recovery.” Indeed.

Great Escapes

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1743605900
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Great Escapes written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PERFECT GETAWAY Beach paradises. Luxury hideaways. Cultural thrills. This showcase of the world's most enjoyable escapes celebrates the sheer pleasure of travel. Take time out to indulge in romantic getaways, culinary adventures, musical journeys and family holidays. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Antonia and Her Daughters

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742695256
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Antonia and Her Daughters written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next volume of memoir from the author of the international bestseller A Thousand Days in Venice introduces the extraordinary Antonia, imperious matriach of four generations of strong-willed Tuscan women The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and "the woman with the fairy-tale life" needs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by the offer of a simple stone cottage in the remote, mountainous region of western Tuscany, distant from the distractions of her everyday life with Fernando in Orvieto, she sets off for some much-needed solitude. But her plans to live simply, in peace and quiet, are overturned when she meets the imperious, tempestuous Antonia, the still-stunning, elderly matriarch of a large, complicated family of four generations of beautiful blue-eyed Italian women, all with stories and ideas of their own. Antonia dislikes tourists and outsiders, and so Marlena at first spars and clashes with her before they reach an understanding. Over feasts and family dinners, walking in the dark before sunrise to harvest wild lettuces, preparing meals and exchanging recipes, the two women joust, joke, exchange confidences, and grow closer and closer until finally Antonia reveals the terrible secrets behind the vivid beauty of Il Castelleto. Evocative, powerful, and haunting, this is a compelling insight into Italy's recent past and a revealing glimpse into one extraordinary woman's story and her kitchen.

Tuscan Secrets

Author : Marlena De Blasi
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741752612
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Tuscan Secrets written by Marlena De Blasi and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, these are the further adventures of Marlena and Fernando and their experiences as they move to a small village in Tuscany. Originally published as Dolce e Salata, this is another delicious combination of authentic Italian life, food, recipes, love and memoir.