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STOLEN FIGS: And Other Adventures in Calabria - Softcover

Rotella, Mark

 
9780865476967: STOLEN FIGS: And Other Adventures in Calabria
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0865476969 ISBN 13: 9780865476967
Verlag: North Point Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy.

Mark Rotella's Stolen Figs -- named a Best Travel Book of 2003 by Condé Nast Traveler -- is a marvelous evocation of Calabria. A grandson of Calabrese immigrants, Rotella persuades his father to visit the region for the first time in thirty years; once there, he meets Giuseppe, a postcard photographer who becomes his guide. As they travel around the region, Giuseppe initiates Rotella -- and the reader -- into its secrets: how to make a soppressata and 'nduja, and, of course, how to steal a fig without committing a crime. Stolen Figs is a model travelogue -- at once charming and wise, and full of an earthy and unpretentious sense of life that now, as ever, characterizes Calabria and its people.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Rotella works as an editor at Publishers Weekly. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Verlag
North Point Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0865476969
ISBN 13 
9780865476967
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
322
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