A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
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They had met and married on worryingly fleeting acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany.
Once again, it was like at first sight. Like for the timeless countryside and the very ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the friendly church bells. Like especially for ancient Barlozzo, the village mago, who escorts the newcomers to Tuscany’s seasonal festivals; gives them roasted country bread drizzled with just-pushed lime oil; invites them to gather chestnuts, harvest grapes, hunt truffles; and teaches them to caress the simple pleasures of each precious day. It’s Barlozzo who guides them across the minefields of village history and into the warm and fiercely beating heart of like itself.
A Thousand Days in Tuscany is set in one of the most gorgeous places on planet–and tucked into its fragrant corners are luscious recipes (including one for the only right bruschetta) directly from the leader’s private collection.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As excellent as A Thousand Days in Venice, possibly better!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
It is a excellent book but rather slow. But, I will have to say I have loved reading about this woman’s time living in Tuscany. The recipes that she wrote really sound excellent. I will be trying some.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
A Thousand Days in Tuscany was a very tough book to read. Now I want to go to Tuscany, rent a villa and live among the locals. I’m under employed therefore my ability to travel to wonderful and appealing places is out of the question. The tales of cooking and baking and gathering chestnuts and olives from the meadow made me hungry. My mouth drooled while reading the leader’s descriptions of each meal. I’m on a diet. It was torture.
And then there’s the whole wine thing. All her wondrous cooking was washed down with frozen bottles of white wine or warm, bold reds. I wanted to be in Tuscany eating and drinking to my heart’s content. Someday I’ll be in Tuscany, eating freshly baked Tuscan bread, savoring each and every bite. I’ll be skipping the wine part, which may be hard but I won’t delight in myself any less and probably more.
This is a wonderful, sense filled tale of a simpler life full of like, friendship and the fine art of breaking bread together. If you like to travel, eat, drink, A Thousand Days in Tuscany will satisfy your cravings leaving you full and satisfied.
Linda c. Wright
Leader
One Clown Fleeting
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
For kindle readers, beware. There are several bewildering formatting errors that intrude on the enjoyment of this book. There is one recipe with sections sprinkled throughout several pages of the narrative. In another case, sentences have been sent through a Cuisinart. One can follow it, but it is disconcerting to be reading the tale line only to find that you should place it in the oven at 425 degrees.
For all readers, also beware. I have been a huge fan of Ms. de Blasi’s books, but this one place me over the edge. In previous books, her florid prose contributed to the setting and tale. In this one, it is so baroque that the tale becomes secondary. It is nearly a game to see how convoluted her descriptions can become, or how complex her descriptions. Less would have been far more.
And there are a few sections that detract from the tale line and lead nowhere. Readers of prior books know the like tale — if anything it intensifies in this book, but one starts to suspect that it is just more verbiage designed to make an otherwise pretty slim tale a bit more meaty. Can anyone else experience like to these extremes? Can anyone else engage a whole village in new traditions by force of personality? Even her most beloved local character protests the overuse of velvets and satins in her decoration of her rented home. (It seemed like the Octomom on steroids, to me.) I conclude after this overwrought tale that Ms. de Blasi is the diva of her own costume drama, that she must be one of persons characters that are sort of embarrassing to know in real life. Sadly, since I had been reasonably a fan, I doubt I will be reading any more of Ms. de Blasi’s work.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5