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The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley
The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in March, harvesting and threshing corn in July, hunting for wild muchrooms in September, and grape crushing in Ocober. Scattered t...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
May 1st 1989
by North Point Press
(first published January 1st 1984)
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This is a book about the day to day life of a traditional Cortona woman and what she cooks throughout the year. It is about 50% about the food they eat and 50% recipes. The recipes are oddly written and not very clear. The writer is British, and the directions might be more clear to them. She tries to translate her British measurements to American at the end, but when she says an American teacup is not the same as a British tea cup, it's not much clearer. She has one recipe which asks the reader...more
Three and a half stars. Exactly what the title says. A slice of life before modernization completely obliterates it.
This book follows the year month to month in a Tuscan farmhouse kitchen from curing proscuitto to making cheese. It was fascinating to me since I have little experience with the real nitty-gritty of farm living.
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Elizabeth Romer studied textile design at the Royal College of Art, London, and has practiced and taught in that field. She lives in Tuscany with her husband.
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