Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy / Frances Mayes
Material type:
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0767916069
- 945.5
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
Riva, 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
Ben Tornati (welcome back)
Conversion chart
Swan excerpt
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.
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