STOLEN FIGS - Couverture souple

Rotella, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0865476969 ISBN 13 : 9780865476967

Editeur : North Point Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Rotella is the author of Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria (NPP, 2003). A senior reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and their two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: North Point Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865476969
• ISBN 13: 9780865476967
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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