Advantages: Some great food writing and accounts of Tuscan life Disadvantages: Boring analysis of their marriage
...first encountered Marlena de Blasi a couple of years ago when I read (and reviewed) "A Thousand Days in Venice"; in that book the food writer and restaurant critic recounts how she met an Italian bank manager and left her home in St Louis to marry him and live in Venice. I wasn't very complimentary about the book; this was partly because it didn't meet my expectations (I had anticipated more recipes and information about food) and partly because ... ...Nevertheless when I chanced upon a copy of "A Thousand Days in Tuscany" I resolved to give the author another chance. Now the couple's story moves to Tuscany, to the backwater of San Casciano dei Bagni where Marlena and Fernando rent an old stone house. There, with the expert guidance of their self-appointed teacher Barluzzo, whom they affectionately nickname "the Duke", Marlena and Fernando throw themselves into learning the local traditions. They ...
fizzytom 04.11.2009
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Continuing from A Thousand Days in Venice this is the story of Marlena and her Venetian ... more
husband Fernando as they make a life for themselves in rural Tuscany. Amongst the many people they befriend is Barluzzo an old sage who takes the couple under ...
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