The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley

A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life

Author: Elizabeth Romer

The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in March, harvesting and threshing corn in July, hunting for wild muchrooms in September, and grape crushing in Ocober. Scattered t….Read More

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