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Chargement... The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valleypar Elizabeth Romer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Romanticized view of rural life in Tuscany. The writers constant exuberance was wearing. ( ) Memoir / cookbook written by a woman who was renting a house on a Tuscan farm. The author essentially spies on the lives of the poor farmers from whom she rents, glorifying their lives, particularly that of the farmer's wife. This women, Sylvana, lives a terrible life of slavery. Up before the dawn every day, she works literally every waking moment, always cooking, foraging for foodstuffs, preserving, making cheese, cleaning, mending, etc., etc., etc. Although Romer attempts to glorify the lives of these farmers, the book ends up being a study in why small-farm life is going by the wayside. I would not want to live Sylvana's life, nor would I wish it on my children. On the up-side, I did pick up some simple but fabulous cooking tips and recipes, always welcome. A delightful book that describes the events, celebrations and the food eaten by a traditional Umbrian farmer's family month by month for a whole year. The farmer in question lives in the Val Minima, which is the next valley to the one I live in near Cortona, so the book has a personal resonance for me and I've tried out many of the simple recipes with complete success. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In a green and secret valley in Tuscany, life is firmly moulded by the past. In this beautiful account of traditional life and cooking, Elizabeth Romer introduces the Cerotti family who farm one section of the valley and vividly describes, month by month, the Tuscan year ¿ January's prosciutto and salame, cheese-making in March, threshing the corn in high summer, the game and chanterelles of autumn, the chestnut woods and zabajone of November and December. In the heart of the Cerotti house, wonderful meals are prepared using fresh and simple ingredients, governed by the rhythms of the changing seasons. This magical book reveals the secrets of an ancient way of life and cuisine, with dozens of delicious recipes to bring the flavour of Tuscany to any kitchen. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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