Under the Tuscan Sun 托斯卡尼的艳阳下

Contents TITLE PAGE DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE BRAMARE: (ARCHAIC) TO YEARN FOR A HOUSE AND THE LAND IT TAKES TWO OXEN TWO DAYS TO PLOW SISTER WATER, BROTHER FIRE THE WILD ORCHARD WHIR OF THE SUN FESTINA TARDE (MAKE HASTE SLOWLY) A LONG TABLE UNDER THE TREES SUMMER KITCHEN NOTES CORTONA, NOBLE CITY RIVA, MAREMMA: INTO WILDEST TUSCANY TURNING ITALIAN GREEN OIL FLOATING WORLD: A WINTER SEASON WINTER KITCHEN NOTES ROSE WALK SEMPRE PIETRA (ALWAYS STONE) RELICS OF SUMMER SOLLEONE BEN TORNATI (WELCOME BACK) CONVERSION CHARTS SWAN EXCERPT CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR Under the Tuscan Sun EXPERIENCE FRANCES MAYES∍S TUSCANY... COPYRIGHT PAGE For Ann Cornelisen Acknowledgments Many thanks to my agent, Peter Ginsberg, of Curtis Brown Ltd., to Charlie Conrad, my editor at Broadway Books, and to the spectacular staff at Broadway Books. Jane Piorko of the New York Times, Elaine Greene of House Beautiful, and Rosellen Brown, guest editor of Ploughshares, published early versions of parts of this book: mille grazie. Friends and family members deserve at least a bottle of Chianti and a handful of Tuscan poppies: Todd Alden, Paul......