![]() ![]() It’s Barlozzo who guides them across the minefields of village history and into the warm and fiercely beating heart of love itself.Ī Thousand Days in Tuscany is set in one of the most beautiful places on earth–and tucked into its fragrant corners are luscious recipes (including one for the only true bruschetta) directly from the author’s private collection. ![]() Love especially for old Barlozzo, the village mago, who escorts the newcomers to Tuscany’s seasonal festivals gives them roasted country bread drizzled with just-pressed olive oil invites them to gather chestnuts, harvest grapes, hunt truffles and teaches them to caress the simple pleasures of each precious day. A trumpets wailing, a winds warm breath, the chink of a bell on an errant lamb, the smoke from a candle just spent, first light, twilight, firelight. Love for the timeless countryside and the ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the friendly church bells. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany. ![]() ![]() The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena. They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. The next volume of memoir from the author of the international bestseller A Thousand Days in Venice. ![]()
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