The lady in the palazzo : at home in Umbria
De Blasi, Marlena
The lady in the palazzo : at home in Umbria / by Marlena de Blasi - 1st ed - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2007. - 317 p. ; 23 cm.
Author de Blasi takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither a seacoast nor a foreign border, it's a region less trampled by travelers and, in turn, less accepting of strangers. So de Blasi sets out to establish her niche in this new place and to win over her new neighbors by doing what she does best, cooking her way into their hearts. (Her recipes are included.) Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her memoir is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she searches for the right balance in this city on the hill, as well as the right home--which turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo.--From publisher description.
9781565124738
2006045874
De Blasi, Marlena
Orvieto (Italy)----Description and travel
Orvieto (Italy)----Social life and customs
DG975.O7 / D4 2007
945.652 DEB
The lady in the palazzo : at home in Umbria / by Marlena de Blasi - 1st ed - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2007. - 317 p. ; 23 cm.
Author de Blasi takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither a seacoast nor a foreign border, it's a region less trampled by travelers and, in turn, less accepting of strangers. So de Blasi sets out to establish her niche in this new place and to win over her new neighbors by doing what she does best, cooking her way into their hearts. (Her recipes are included.) Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her memoir is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she searches for the right balance in this city on the hill, as well as the right home--which turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo.--From publisher description.
9781565124738
2006045874
De Blasi, Marlena
Orvieto (Italy)----Description and travel
Orvieto (Italy)----Social life and customs
DG975.O7 / D4 2007
945.652 DEB
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