Search - Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

I loved reading this book. Europe has always been my future and nothing would be better than recreating a part of its past. plus, reading this it made me really hungry because she was cooking seeminly delightful treats all the time!

Frances Nayes opens the door on a new world when she buys and renovates an abandoned villa in Tuscan. She takes the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. She also creates dozens of seasonal recipes in her kitchen and includes them in this book.

Lots of fun to read--you feel like you are in Italy!

If you've seen the movie you have to read the book. It's even better.

I guess I expected this book to be more of a story than it was. Having lived in Italy for 3 years as a service member, and learned to speak Italian, the descriptions of the people and the towns were pretty accurate. I don't think the decription of the attitude of the contractors was accurate though. I found Italians are a hard working, generous people who enjoy life with gusto. This book seems more bragging about how much money they have to spend than anything else and how many "famous" people they know. The recipies are wonderful, IF you love to cook. Overall, it was dissapointing and boring.

How exciting would it be to get away from it all and go to Italy and buy an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside! A girl can always dream.