Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Rotella, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865476969 ISBN 13: 9780865476967

Casa editrice: North Point Press, 2004

Riassunto

Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy.

Mark Rotella's Stolen Figs -- named a Best Travel Book of 2003 by Condé Nast Traveler -- is a marvelous evocation of Calabria. A grandson of Calabrese immigrants, Rotella persuades his father to visit the region for the first time in thirty years; once there, he meets Giuseppe, a postcard photographer who becomes his guide. As they travel around the region, Giuseppe initiates Rotella -- and the reader -- into its secrets: how to make a soppressata and 'nduja, and, of course, how to steal a fig without committing a crime. Stolen Figs is a model travelogue -- at once charming and wise, and full of an earthy and unpretentious sense of life that now, as ever, characterizes Calabria and its people.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mark Rotella works as an editor at Publishers Weekly. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: North Point Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0865476969
• ISBN 13: 9780865476967
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322