Expecting nothing, a divorced, middle-aged woman from Missouri vacationing in Venice whimsically accepts a date with a man named Fernando and, miraculously, finds true love. Here she recalls the details of their rapid courtship, their marriage, and the aftermath.
In this sequel to A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE, in which the author traveled to Italy and met the man of her dreams, Marlena and Fernando are living in Tuscany. Taken under the wing of an old man named Barlozzo, they explore the joys of wine-making and truffle-hunting, and their relationship deepens. The author describes the joys and the tensions of ...
Touching and humorous, de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy's Umbria, is a story for those who delight in travel and share the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very different place.
Expecting nothing, a divorced, middle-aged woman from Missouri vacationing in Venice whimsically accepts a date with a man named Fernando and, miraculously, finds true love. Here she recalls the details of their rapid courtship, their marriage, and the aftermath.
From the national bestselling author of "A Thousand Days in Venice" and "A Thousand Days in Tuscany" comes a magical, beautifully-written true story of life, love, and the magic of Sicily.
Touching and humorous, de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy's Umbria, is a story for those who delight in travel and share the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very different place.
Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in 1998, Marlena Di Blasi's cookbook is an impassioned tour of Tuscany, Umbria, Romagna, Emilia, the Veneto, Lombardy, Piemonte, Val D'Aosta, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and Marche, with Di Blasi's own interpretation of age-old recipes.
From the bestselling author of "A Thousand Days in Venice" comes a collection of mouthwatering recipes from all over southern Italy, interwoven with anecdotes of her travels and the culture of the region.
The cuisine of southern Italy, beginning near Rome and moving south to the Mediterranean, is more than the red sauce served in American Italian restaurants. This book includes recipes for such delectable and unusual foods as braised forest mushrooms, salt cod salad with artichokes and olives, pasta in a sheep's-milk sauce, and the intriguingly ...
Continuing from A Thousand Days in Venice, this is the story of Marlena and her Venetian 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 his wing and initiates them in the age-old traditions of Tuscan life: since their house lacks ...
In this sequel to A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE, in which the author traveled to Italy and met the man of her dreams, Marlena and Fernando are living in Tuscany. Taken under the wing of an old man named Barlozzo, they explore the joys of wine-making and truffle-hunting, and their relationship deepens. The author describes the joys and the tensions of ...
When Marlena moves with her husband to the small town of Orvieto to renovate a dilapidated medieval palazzo, she knows that the fastest way into the hearts and homes of her new neighbours is through their stomachs. In her third memoir about life in Italy, Marlena de Blasi returns with all of the sumptuous prose and delectable descriptions of the ...
When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American chef and food writer travelling in Italy, she is happy with her life. Yet within a few months of meeting Fernando, she quits her job, sells her house, kisses her two grown children goodbye, and moves to ...
Continuing the love story of Marlena and Fernando, Coming Home is a gorgeously lush and evocative account of their lives in Italy. It is a story of love, food, renovations, recipes and wine, as Marlena de Blasi, author of the best-selling A Thousand Days in Venice and Dolce e Salata, moves with her beloved Fernando to the beautiful town of Orvieto ...
After two years in their barely comfortable stable in San Casciano, Marlena and Fernando de Blasi know it's time to move on. They are looking for a home in which to set a sumptuous table and, in Orvieto, they find it. The town is known as La Divina, the Divine, for its abundance of treasures but it's the friendships Marlena and Fernando make that ...
'You can't help being won over by its charm ...' - Canberra TimesReluctantly leaving Venice behind her, Marlena de Blasi travels with her Italian husband south to begin their new adventure. It's in San Casciano dei Bagni, a small Tuscan village that Marlena and Fernando hope to find a rural way of life in which they can both share.Almost ...
From the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, these are the further adventures of Marlena and Fernando and their experiences as they move to a small village in Tuscany. Another delicious combination of authentic Italian life, food, recipes, love and memoir.
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