The book also includes some recipes! Highly recommended, and guaranteed to inspire both wanderlust and hunger. It made me long to go back to Tuscany, and while I only lived there a month, I feel like she really captured its essence and light. She also talks about the churches, architecture, history, art, etc. My mouth watered reading about the food they cooked and ate there in Italy. She's one of those writers who is familiar with all sorts of literary and historical sources/works and casually mentions what they say about what she's writing about at the moment (Virgil is mentioned the most). Her voice is soothing yet intelligent and interesting, and I liked seeing everything through her eyes. Mayes was the head of Creative Writing at the university where she works, so of course this book was written beautifully. The book is based on the journals she kept while doing this. Frances Mayes and her boyfriend Ed purchase and restore an old Tuscan farmhouse, and learn how to live and eat in Italy.
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