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Award-winning author, Sophie Grigson charts the local delicacies, ingredients and producers; through recipes and stories, she immerses you in the beauty, culture, food and characters of southern Italy.
I årtusener har fersk olivenolje vært en av livets nødvendigheter – ikke bare som mat, men også som medisin, et skjønnhetsmiddel og et viktig element i religiøse ritualer. Men dette symbolet på renhet har blitt dypt korrumpert. Extra Virginity er en praktfull kombinasjon av kulturhistorie og matmanifest, og tar oss med på en reise gjennom olivenoljens verden. Den åpner øynene våre for olivenoljens rike fortid, så vel som for den harde samtidige kampen mellom oljesvindlere i den globaliserte matindustrien og håndverksprodusenter hvis olje virkelig fortjener navnet «extra virgin».
A whitewashed fishing village, a shapely signorina and an infatuated young man - head over heels on the heel of the boot of Southern Italy. This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of leaving his previous life for La Dolce Vita - that quintessentially Italian seductive way of life, with its luscious foods, physical beauty and sun-drenched vistas.
Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award. After packing up and saying 'bye bye' UK, Sophie relocates to Puglia, Italy. This narrative book of food writing, stories and recipes brings to life the region, its food and the local characters that she meets along the way.
This is a book about courage, hope, new horizons and, above all, delicious food.
Etter å ha gått langs Via Appia for sin kritikerroste bok *Between Two Seas*, ble Charles Lister uimotståelig tiltrukket av kontrastenes land, det sørlige Italia. Lister hadde planlagt å reise på sykkel, men en italiener sa at han var gal og insisterte på at han skulle ta mopeden sin. Han reiste mye, like fascinert av regionens viner og de lokale kvinnenes skjønnhet som av overfloden av templer og historiens tyngde.
Guide - Matera from the Sassi to the new city There have been many guides and illustrated books about the Sassi of Matera. Some are estimable products of studies and researches that describe the birth and the evolution of the unique hamlet that the Sassi of Matera represent. This handbook, on the other hand, is not so ambitious as the others, and does not offer unpublished assertions on the origins and on the history of these ancient quarters. But while reading through it, it is immediately clear what the Sassi are, what they represented in the past and what they represent today for the city of Matera
Carlo Levi ble forvist til et avsidesliggende og goldt hjørne av Italia på grunn av sin motstand mot Mussolini, og gikk inn i en verden avskåret fra historie og stat, innesperret av skikk og sorg, uten trøst eller lindring, hvor bøndene, evig tålmodige, levde i en eldgammel stillhet og i dødens nærvær – for Kristus stoppet ved Eboli.
"About Italy - Puglia to the Po"
David P. Hume
David Humes nyeste reiseskildring utforsker de mindre kjente byene i Italia, inkludert Padua, Torino, Parma, Bologna, Perugia og mange flere. Han deler sine beskrivelser av gamle katedraler, fascinerende lokalhistorie og flasker med Chianti.
Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired into the cultural imaginations of the educated.
In 2005, Cathy and Jason threw in successful careers as TV presenters and producers to become olive farmers in Italy. With their one year old daughter and Italian dictionary in tow, they found themselves in the middle of a European nowhere untouched by modernity.
They were on a steep learning curve in more-or-less everything – finding out how to prune an olive tree so that a sparrow can pass through its branches, learning what beauty products are de rigeur in the changing rooms of a local Italian football team, being trained, by a local Italian choir, how to sing in English but with an Italian accent – and learning the rigorous rules of when one is allowed to consume a cappuccino. Armed with their indefatigable love of food, they headed off many a potentially tricky situation by cooking their way out of it, a sure route to the heart of any Italian.
"Soul of the Heel: A funny thing happened on
the way to Puglia"
Scott Bergstein
There is an old Yiddish proverb that Scott and Jessica would have done well to heed. Mensch tracht, und Gott lacht. Man plans and God laughs. They thought that quitting their jobs, leaving a comfortable penthouse in Pittsburgh, saying good-bye to family, friends, and their mother tongue and moving to a little olive farm in Puglia, the “heel of the boot,” would be as easy as breaking a really expensive wine glass. And God laughed.
Two Californians colliding with the culture of the extreme south of Italy can be amusing and intriguing. We came to understand that the stories surrounding each town, building, field, and person animate the stones as much as the people in Puglia. An olive tree is not only a plant, a cathedral is not just a building, and an expat is not just a foreigner."
"Pan' e Pomodor - My Passage To Puglia" -
Ian R. McEwan
Da reisen startet, forventet vi ikke å kjøpe en forfallen «torretta» og en 4 mål stor olivengård i Gargano i Puglia. Min kones far «rømte» fra landsbyen og livsstilen i Vico del Gargano. Hvert år kom han tilbake med familien sin i august, og senere besøkte vi også Vico hver sommer.
Den bestselgende og elskede forfatteren Frances Mayes oppdager Italias skjulte gleder i en overdådig reisefortelling som krysser landet, med oppfinnsomme nye oppskrifter som feirer italiensk mat.
