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Enchanted by Italy, a young woman secures a post teaching English as a second language in Florence and is able to explore all the magic the land has to offer. Great wine, good food, and more await! Author, international traveler, and passionate wine lover Elizabeth Calhoun invites you to experience Italy along with her. Her work is a unique mix of informative wine guide and fictional romance. She pairs each wine with a beautiful, hand-crafted story that portrays the beauty, deep history, and deeper passion of nine of Italy's twenty different wine regions, covering over forty varieties of wine. In addition to a description of each wine, along with food pairing and tasting notes, Calhoun's stories capture the spirit of the wine. Famous Italian personages like Lorenzo de Medici make appearances in vivid, fleeting portraits of a specific time, place, and mood. Legends blend with history and present-day adventures to create a fantastic voyage through Italian wine country. The short stories are framed in the journey of Calhoun's heroine, who discovers a whole new side of herself as she gets swept up in a dreamy, steamy romance! Winner of the Sixth Annual Beverly Hills International Book Award in the "Wine Books" category! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Dry reading! The stories were more of the history and descriptions of the different areas of Italy, not really personal experiences. The wines she writes about are a few select wines from particular vineyards in Italy. This would have been better as a beautiful tabletop picture book of all the different places described, and of the different grapes and wines and Italian foods she wrote about.
Although, my interest did perk up when reading about Pulia, a town after my own heart, resting in the heel of Italy where their daily schedule seems to be much like my own. The people work hard in the mornings. They fish or farm and take siestas from 1:00 to 6:00. I doubt they actually slept that long, but it's hard to get moving again after busting your ass all morning. When gardening season hits in the heat of the summer here in Southeast Texas, this is pretty much my schedule. ( )