Under the Tuscan Sun : At Home in Italy
by FRANCES MAYES
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Author: FRANCES MAYESEdition: Paperback
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Published: 2003-08-26
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Number of pages: 336
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Book Review: Don't have that warm fuzzy feeling
Summary: 2 Stars
I started reading the book thinking it would be like the movie, but I quickly realized that snippets of the book make the awesome movie. So I took that with a grain of salt until about 3/4 through it when I started feeling almost jealous of her extravagant life. It's like she HAS to eat ONLY gourmet every night. Isn't she American? Doesn't she crave American-type food sometimes? Just because she is in Italy doesn't mean she can't crave a hamburger or whatever. She obviously came from money because she had a big fancy southern plantation house complete with a cook. Her daughter seems to be spoiled just like her. Must be nice! People say the book is choppy and full of her own views of Italy. I think they forgot to read the part where it said that the book was a remake of her little journal, so naturally it would lack a plot and be tidbits of info about her thoughts and views of her life. She omitted the parts about SF because that doesn't have anything to do with Tuscany. Overall, it was fun at first, then tedious, then just hard to read because of all her required lavishness. I am just a regular middle class American. I've never even been to Europe because I can't afford it! This book ended up making me feel like a loser or something because there's no way that I could EVER afford do what she did. And to top it off, she made millions off the three books she has written about Tuscany! It's feeding that fire.
Summary of Under the Tuscan Sun : At Home in Italy
Frances Mayes--widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer--opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In sensuous and evocative language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. An accomplished cook and food writer, Mayes also creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes from her traditional kitchen and simple garden, all of which are included in this audio. Doing for Tuscany what M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, Mayes writes about the tastes and pleasures of a foreign country with gusto and passion. A celebration of the extraordinary quality of life in Tuscany, Under the Tuscan Sun is a feast for all senses.In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals. Cooking, gardening, tiling and painting are never chores, but skills to be learned, arts to be practiced, and above all to be enjoyed. At the same time Mayes brings a literary and intellectual mind to bear on the experience, adding depth to this account of her enticing rural idyll.
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