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The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine.Dont miss Frances Mayes in PBSs Dream of Italy:Tuscan Sun Special!Reading this book is a vacation in itself.--The New York Times Book Review (Best Travel Books of the Summer) The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of this magical countrys offerings. In See You in the Piazza, Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know, as she and her husband, Ed, eat and drink their way through thirteen regions--from Friuli to Sicily. Along the way, she seeks out the cultural and historic gems not found in traditional guidebooks. Frances conjures the enchantment of the backstreets, the hubbub of the markets, the dreamlike wonder of that space between lunch and dinner when a city cracks open to those who would wander or when a mind is drawn into the pages of a delicious book--and discloses to us the secrets that only someone who is on intimate terms with a place could find.

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A LSO BY F RANCES M AYES Women in Sunlight Under Magnolia Bella Tuscany - photo 1
A LSO BY F RANCES M AYES

Women in Sunlight

Under Magnolia

Bella Tuscany

Every Day in Tuscany

Under the Tuscan Sun

Swan

In Tuscany (with Edward Mayes)

A Year in the World

Bringing Tuscany Home (with Edward Mayes)

The Tuscan Sun Cookbook (with Edward Mayes)

The Discovery of Poetry

Sunday in Another Country

After Such Pleasures

Hours

The Arts of Fire

Ex Voto

Copyright 2019 by Frances Mayes All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2

Copyright 2019 by Frances Mayes

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available upon request.

ISBN9780451497697

Ebook ISBN9780451497710

Map and by Meredith Hamilton

Cover design by Elena Giavaldi and Alane Gianetti

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Contents P REFACE Italy the endless surprise The places Ive chosen for this - photo 3
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Italy, the endless surprise. The places Ive chosen for this book are for example, because if you travel adventurously, you will find many others that draw you close and let you see why you ventured so far, and what you will take with you when you leave. Will it be a swim in the October-cold sea at Carloforte on Isola di San Pietro in Sardegna, a dip that jolted you out of summer doldrums and propelled you with great energy into the fall? Or a plate of arugula dressed with lemon juice and fresh olive oil in Sorrento, when the taste wedded to the heady scents of citrus blossoms from trees layered in ascending terraces all around you? That became the way you wanted to eat for the rest of your life. The regal cardinal striding into the Vatican. So pompous, youre thinking, but then you catch a glimpse of his robe caught in his rear end, proving that the divine is human. The mad woman performing Ada arias in the fountain of Romes Campo de Fiori; lanterns shadows flickering on stone when you looked out over the deserted Piazza Navona at three in the morning, hearing only the splash of the outlandish fountains below. And then a man starts playing Vivaldi on his flute. Your Rome, all in a day. The private moments, the little bursts of secret meaning that travel can give, the ancient light through the Greek columns at Selinunte, grazing the face of your child, casting her into the long historical span of time. Places give us such gifts, if we are ready to receive them.


I DIVIDE MY time between Italy and the United States. My home in Tuscany, Bramasole, became second nature to me and now is the place Ive lived the longest of anywhere in my life. Do I know Italy well? No. Not because I havent traveled, cooked, observed, gazed at a million paintings, and read the convoluted history. To know Italy takes ten lifetimes. Each time I return, I feel the same excitement I knew in the first years of living here. So much to learn, and what luck, Ill have five weeks or six days or three monthssurely I will begin to feel Ive a grasp on the place. But Italy remains elusive. Just beyond that hilltop castle, theres a valley of olive trees, then another town where the stony streets are pale gold instead of gray. The pasta is different theremade with half bread crumbsthe dialect is unintelligible, the local duomos frescoes are painted in apricots and chalky blues with sublime faces you later see in the local bar while you sip your Negroni. You were in Bevagna; now youre a few kilometers away in Montefalco, a new world. Infinite differencesall packed into a country about the size of Arizona.


HUNGERING FOR MOREMORE understanding, more exposure, more pastamy husband, Ed, and I suddenly pack our little white Alfa Romeo and hit the road. Sometimes we are joined by William, our grandson; sometimes we are joined by friends, for an hour or for a week. Our wanderlust awakened: For a year and a half, we seek unique places hidden in plain sight, and also cities such as Genova and Parmathe names known, but who has lingered there? Italy. Infinite.


BECAUSE PASTA IS the national anthem, Im searching for quintessential tastes of each place, though instead of pasta I might fall for sbrisolona, the crumbly, nutty dessert that turns divine when dipped in zabaglione. That swim in Carloforte? Followed by robust paccheri, a large hollow pasta with a talent for soaking up tomato and eggplant sauce. A fritto misto followed, fish just pulled from the water, crisply fried and succulent. That lusty dinner became Carloforte! And impossible to forget the pitcher of fruity red wine and the salad of wild greens picked that morning from the earth. The score of our adventure is the music of many corks popping.

Travel is a journey into ones own ignorance. Nothing proves this more quickly than dipping into Italian wine varieties. In every region, there are grapesnisiola,teroldego,nerellomascaleseIve never known existed, as well as particular winemaking methods, such as the revival of aging in clay amphoras lined with beeswax. The Greeks and Romans, who seem to have known everything, also buried their giare. In effect, theyre planting the wine into the earth.


SUCH PASSION EVERYWHERE for food. Even a two-year-old has an adventurous palate! More snails! He bangs with his spoon. More! We share the zeal. On arrival in every town, Ed begins plotting. How many lunches? How many dinners can we enjoy in this exceptional place? And markets! Each town retains the tradition of weekly go-to-market day. Whats freshest, whats ready to plant, who has the truffles, who has the best porchetta, are the little violet artichokes in yet? I try to plan to be in a town on market day. There, you pick up a recipe for topinambur, Jerusalem artichokes, or youre offered a taste of the annurca apple (annurche, plural), an ancient variety that is picked green and ripened to winey sweetness on straw beds. (The grower will brag that Italy has a thousand five hundred varieties of apple, while the French have only fifteen. A suspect figure, but I admire his passion, molto italiano.) Vendors sometimes still hawk their wares, their high croaking voices hearkening back to the Middle Ages, when in these same streets men sold their honey and chickpeas.


THE MOST VIVID pleasures of Italy are the simple ones. Youre installed at a table on a sun-drenched piazza. You have your notebook and the whole day. Theres nothing you must do except let that sundial cast its shadow on the next hour, let the apricot faade of a renaissance palazzo reflect on the faces of those around you, let the memories of what brought you here rise and facet in your mind, let the waiter bring that second cappuccino before you set forth into the day.


FRESH MEMORIES: GREEK-WHITE villages of Puglia clinging to cliffs above the sea, the siren call of the Lazio coast, knotty medieval streets of Genova, vast underground Roman cisterns in Fermo, green hikes and hot chocolate in the Dolomiti, the trail of Frederick IIs Puglian Romanesque churches, afternoons on the golden Tuscan beaches, the atmospheric Torino coffee bars where Cesare Pavese would writeEndless, yes.

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