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Isabella Dusi, a native Australian, settled in Montalcino, a beautiful mountain eyrie famous for its wine and the proud nature of its inhabitants. Her acceptance into this close-knit community was a hard-won thing and has inspired Isabella to capture the true spirit of Montalcino. Vanilla Beans & Brodo tells of the violent history of this medieval village, which has lefts its mark on the character traits of the Montalcinese, and also offers a rare insight into the anxiety, joy, fun, and pressure of daily life as it unfolds with the seasons. An evocative story of the rivalry between village neighborhoods, of football fever and festival pageantry, Isabella Dusi destroys the myth that Tuscan villages are tranquil places, and instead reveals a life infinitely rich and full of dramas.
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Quite enjoyable reading........2006-11-03
If you love all things Italian, you'll enjoy reading Isabella Dusi's
"Vanilla Beans & Brodo". You will feel what it's like to live in a hill town in Tuscany. Isabella intersperses her everyday life in Motalcino with a little history of the area. It made me to want to visit the town again and to personally address all of the people in her book that she encounters in her everyday life. The book is a little slow going at first, but does get better as you get into the book.
A Poor Imitation.......2006-10-29
Ms. Dusi may have been a talented businesswoman in Australia and she may have been in a dire need of an income while living her dream in Tuscany, but she is not a writer and I did not need another half-read bore on my bookshelf. A senseless rambling. In fact, the only intriguing thing about this book is its title and this is what lead me to click the 'buy' tab. This book cannot compare to the expat classics, such as A Year in Provence and/or Under the Tuscan Sun. Have no idea what all the gushing reviews are about.
A must read if you're heading to Tuscany.......2006-07-17
This is an interesting book written by a woman who moved from Australia to Montalcino. There is a lot of Montalcino's fascinating history in the book. While she does steroetype Italians a bit, it isn't too obnoxious. Her description of Montalcino's wine industry (particularly about Brunello di Montalcino) is very interesting and made me really regret not buying some of that wine while we were in Italy. I also enjoyed her descriptions of Tuscan foods.
My only complaint about the book is that it is a slow read. For me some of it was redundant, and the parts about the ceremonial hunts and archery contests got boring.
Meeting some of the characters in VB&B.......2003-11-10
We found this enchanting book in our apt. when we arrived for a 3 1/2 month stay in a small town 10 K's from Montalcino in Sept., 2002. My husband was completely mesmerized and suggested that I also read it. I was immediately caught up in the life in our neighboring town. When visiting one day, we stopped in at the pharmacy (Salvioni's) and met Maurelia, the pharmacist's wife. She was one of the main persons is the story. After a half an hour conversation, she invited us to view the upcoming Festa del Tordo from their balcony (directly overlooking the parade route) and to meet the author, Isabella Dusi. The entire day only clarified our feelings about the warmth and truly embracing, friendly nature of the Italian people. A MUST READ!
More Italian Dreams.......2003-10-22
I am totally in love with everything Italian and with the Italian joy of life. I am planning to take a one-way trip when I retire and hopefully land permanently in some marvelous location such as Montalcino. This book makes us aware not only of the wonders available to us when we visit Italy but to how much we miss by not being prepared for our visits.
VB&B is a fascinating book about a region and a primer on how to learn to adapt and enjoy another culture than our own. We so seldom slow down and learn in depth about a place before moving on to something else - this book will teach you how to absorb the atmosphere which most people miss.
When you have finished "Vanilla Beans and Brodo", go on to another great book about learning to live in Italy: "Extra Virgin".
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A sensuous valentine to author Ferenc Máté's adopted homeland, The Hills of Tuscany brims with lush descriptions of golden dales, scrumptious meals, rich wines, and friendly natives. After years of nomadic roaming from Central America to Canada, Máté (a writer) and his wife, Candace (a painter), visit Tuscany and impulsively decide that this is where they will settle down. A year later they return and begin the hunt for their dream house. As the likeable Mátés (they're funny and suitably grateful for the chance to live in one of the world's garden spots) troll the countryside with a series of colorful Tuscan middlemen, it's impossible not to become emotionally involved in their quest. And when they finally discover the perfect abode--La Marinaia, a tastefully renovated stone farmhouse set amid scenery that Ferenc describes as "like being in the middle of a painting"--you're thrilled right along with them. Subsequent chapters follow the Mátés' growing friendship with their neighbors, who not only help rototill the garden but also reveal where to find porcini mushrooms and truffles in the nearby woods. All in all, reading The Hills of Tuscany is the next best thing to quitting your job, climbing on a plane, and finding your own Tuscan dream house. --Rebecca Gleason
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As seductive as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, but with the wit and charm of a 1930s romantic comedy, the true-life adventure of a couple who chucked New York for a new life in Tuscany. The Mates arrived in Tuscany in the late 1980s knowing no Italian and with only four weeks to search for the country house of their dreams. On their last night there, after having been chased by wild boars and befriended by a country realtor who also sells pigs and coffins, they finally concluded the deal on the hood of a rusting tractor with the lawyer speaking Italian and them responding in French, English, and Hungarian, in a Tower of Babel version of "Who's on First?" So begins Ferenc Mat's endearing, in-love-with-life memoir of their first five years in Tuscany, by turns buoyant, reflective, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. His engaging, often poetic prose describes the way of life they were looking for and found-where neighbors, community, home, and, most of all, children, form the focal point of daily life. They live in a small thirteenth-century monastery, surrounded by their vineyards and olive groves, in the spectacular hills near Siena, a few miles from where The English Patient was filmed. The Hills of Tuscany-steeped in mesmerizing scenery and wonderful medieval towns, full of unforgettably delightful characters and spectacular food and wine-nourishes body, mind, and soul. If you're not passionately in love with life at the moment, you'll be hopelessly so by the time you turn the last page.
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Experiencing Tuscany.......2007-01-05
I thought this book was an easy read and pleasant. It was just kind of a diary of the day to day life the author experienced when he bought a home in Tuscany. It was not an in depth study of life as a foreigner in a foreign country but then again I don't think that was his purpose in writing it.
Tuscany at its best.......2007-01-03
Very enjoyable reading, especially if you have vacationed in this area. I could picture the coutry side and the town of Montepluciana that he wrote about. I loved the area and loved Ferenc Mate's book, "The Hills of Tuscany". Some of us wishes that we could trade places with him, living there sounds devine.
Thoughts from Judith Petres Balogh.......2006-09-20
What a delightful arm-chair journey The Hills of Tuscany is! Máté's descriptions involve all senses and beyond that they make the reader yearn for something simple, ancient and cozy, -- to be close to earth and to our fellowmen, and to rediscover the joy of unpretentious things. His enjoyment of life is so obvious that his book would be a pleasure regardless where he settled, be it the Arctic Circle or the rainforest of Costa Rica.
A TUSCANY BOTH SERENE AND SEDUCTIVE.......2006-01-23
Reading "The Hills of Tuscany", Ferenc Mate's exuberant, joyful ode to his adopted country, makes one eager to join that expatriate band. After occupying a series of dwellings a "houseboat, sailboat, mountain cabin, that garage in Laguna Beach, the attic in Paris, the cubbyhole in New York, and a whatsit in the Bahamas," the Hungarian-born Mate and his artist wife, Candace, deemed it time for a permanent home.
Central Italy's countryside, where "Everything was small to the measure of man," beguiled them; there "reigned the gentle Tuscan light, and silence, and a calm." They became contentedly sated by "pranzo," the four-course daily meal that resembles in quantity "our average Thanksgiving dinner," and decided to buy a farmhouse, to put down roots in the idyllic Tuscan hills.
Their enchanting dream was a challenging task. Mate spoke no Italian and was woefully ignorant of the vagaries of an agrarian existence. Nonetheless, he set about his search for their perfect home with a Quixote-like zeal, undaunted by a real estate agent cum undertaker who stored his listings with names of the recently departed in a shoe box. A parade of touted homesteads in abject disrepair didn't discourage him. Collapsed fireplaces and gaping roof holes were the norm. Mate zigzagged his way across unfamiliar terrain, following unmapped rutted paths, bouncing over rocky roads until he found his utopia, "a structure with perfect rhythm." La Marinaia The Sailor's Wife. Once that purchase was accomplished, attempts to have utilities turned on introduced him to an implacable, inscrutable Italian bureaucracy. It was explained that there are an almost infinite number of regulations in Italy, " . . . many dating from Roman times, some contradictory, some incomprehensible."
Settling in also meant becoming a part of the nearest town, Montepulciano, "built for humans not for cars, so the main street was just wide enough for conducting daily affairs, evening promenades, and small festive processions." The couple delighted in exploring closet-size shops run by often absent, usually amiable owners. Their nearest neighbor welcomed them with fresh goat cheese covered by a large fig leaf, and they attempted to improve their Italian by watching Telegiornale, the local televised news an "Italian version of reality, a flexible amalgam of fresh headlines, old footage, and clips from Steve McQueen movies."
More than an enthusiastic tribute to the ever astounding beauties of the Italian countryside, "The Hills Of Tuscany" is a paean to the pleasures of the palate as Mate describes in rapturous detail ravioli stuffed with ricotta and wild mushrooms, crostini spread with tuna and capers, rabbit ragu "spicy with tomatoes" plus a legion of dishes bathed, basted, stir-fried, swathed in or caressed by olive oil. He is also unreservedly passionate about the local wine, "wine as robust as the clay," "wine with a deep complexity that tingled all the taste buds."
Today, Mate lives with his wife and young son at La Marinaia, tending his olives and vineyard. It is there, he writes, that "we learned to live and enjoy life as the Tuscans do piano, piano, con calma." Slowly, slowly, with calm. The author's enthusiastic prose is infectious. His word pictures are captivating, as he unveils a Tuscany that is both serene and seductive. "The Hills Of Tuscany" is an invitation to follow your dream . . . especially if it leads to Italy.
- Gail Cooke
best of the best.......2005-11-29
I've read many many new and old books about Tuscany and other parts of Italy and this is my very favorite. A sweet romance is told along with giving the reader a somewhat secretive map of the region. If you take the time to figure out the north south east and west directions imbedded in the story, you may be able to find several little known and delightful places in and around Montepulciano and even all the way over to the Tuscan coast. I liked this SO much more than Under the Tuscan Sun and in person, I liked Montepulciano so much more than Cortona too!
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Now available from Chronicle Books, this classic volume is a glorious tribute to one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Thousands of Americans visit Tuscany and Umbria each year, and the timeless charms of the hill towns of northern Italy are impossible to forget. Anyone who has wandered the cobblestone streets of Siena or Orvieto or basked in a sunny piazza of Assisi or Montepulciano can attest to the enchanting power and romance of these ancient villages. The Hill Towns of Italy, capturing in luminous photographs the very special feeling of this region, serves as an evocative memoir for those who have had the good fortune to visit the hill towns and an irresistible lure for those who have not yet made the pilgrimage.
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Not enough pictures.......2005-09-08
While the information in this book is very interesting, we had hoped for a few more pictures of the Tuscan countryside.
Hill Towns of Italy.......2005-09-02
The book is in good condition, and provides the information I need. It came very quickly. BUT -- it was supposed to be a paperback book and it is hardback. I wanted paperback so that I could take it with me when I travel!
Biased but you will be too!.......2001-06-28
OK, my grandfather, Richard Kauffman (now deceased), spent 12 years photographing the eternal beauty of the hill towns of italy and all of the photographs in this book, now in its second reprint, were lovingly color-separated personally by him in his garage. He wouldn't even trust another printer with the quality of his images, being a printer by trade himself. Family bias aside, having since travelled to the towns, he captures Sienna as if you were there. Enjoy it as we do...
Light on depth.......2000-06-09
This book is mostly a picture book (and the pictures aren't that great) with little information. Having spent time in all of these towns, the pictures do not do justice. Also, the author concentrates on towns that are full of tour buses and very unpleasant - especially during season. There are so many more hill towns in Umbria and Tuscany that are more out of the way and charming. I guess I should be greatful that they weren't disclosed so that they stay less touristy!
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Florence, Tuscany & Umbria: The Complete Guide with the Best of the Art Treasures and Hill Towns (Fodor's Florence, Tuscany and Umbria)
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Florence, Tuscany and Umbria: The Complete Guide with the Best of the Art Treasures and Hill Towns (Fodor's Florence, Tuscany and Umbria)
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All the essentials of a perfect trip
· Top hotels, inns, and pensions for all budgets
· The best restaurants and trattorias
· The Renaissance glory of Florence
· The fortress towns--Lucca, Fiesole, Perugia--and the arts towns--Assisi, Pisa, Siena, and Spoleto
· Ancient ruins bathed in Tuscan light
· Where to find spas, fishing, hiking, and other pleasures
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The only reference you'll ever need........2001-08-18
Our family and extended family traveled to France & Italy this summer. This book was the most comprehensive, quick guide for historic background, inside stories and accurate directions, as well as reviews. Every hotel or restaurant was exactly as reviewed. No surprises! When you are traveling with 15 people you don't need surprises, just information you can rely on. This book and the Fodor's Provence Gold guide were excellent examples of this!
OK, but not thorough.......2000-10-01
This is fine if you want to hit the main tourist sites and bigger towns. However, if you really want to explore Tuscany, we used the Food Lovers Guide to Tuscany, Charming Inns and Hotels of Tuscany and Michellin. Also, the Eyewitness guide provides better coverage of Florence.
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The American Revolution, writes English scholar Robert Harvey, was a defining event in modern world history, creating "the mightiest nation in human experience." Yet, he adds, in his country the revolution is ignored, while on the American side of the Atlantic it's "clouded by a fog of myth" that prevents understanding. Harvey seeks to illuminate the realities of the conflict. One, as he writes, is the war's strange similarity to Vietnam, not just in the role of guerrilla and militia versus conventional forces, but also in the antiwar strife it produced at home. Another of Harvey's myth-bursting themes is his insistence, contrary to many American textbooks, that the British commanders were not uniformly incompetent, American commanders not uniformly heroic; he cites many examples to show that neither side had a monopoly on either bravery or incompetence. Still another is his argument that the constitutional outcome of the revolution was in many ways a betrayal of the very principles for which the revolution was fought--a charge sure to excite controversy. Harvey's approach is balanced, his writing engaging, and students of the period will learn much from him. --Gregory McNamee
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Taking his title from George III's infamous comment that "We meant well to the Americans-just to punish them with a few bloody noses, and then to make laws for the happiness of both countries," renowned historian Robert Harvey systematically challenges conventional views of the American Revolution and the "founding myths" of America in almost every aspect: why the revolution occurred, who was winning and when, the characters of the principal protagonists, and the role of native Americans and slaves. The result is an extraordinarily fascinating and thoroughly readable account.
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Hallucinogenic Revisionist History.......2006-06-27
Mr. Harvey obviously speaks for those British subjects who still havn't come to terms with the fact that patriotic Americans wanted to get rid of the "Little Dinglybury Nation" that attempted to keep them surpressed. Mr. Harvey is in sorts, a very sore loser. It is amazing that after 230 years, some British commoner would still harbor ill feelings towards the men and women who gave the world the best hope of freedom and liberty that has ever exisited. This book is only good for people in Britain who want to have a nice, happy feel good day.
Mr. Harvey has many wild and undocumented claims, and they are far to many for me to waste my time on. But deep into the book I could not "stand" the non-factual and non-truthful writings of the book, henceforth here is an example; on page 355 he makes a statement that disparages the Founding Fathers of The United States by his complete conjecture; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and all of Congress called for the extermination of all the American natives. There is no such proof of this and absolutely no documentation to back up his statements. As you will quickly notice in the book, there are no references to exactly where he got his information. There may be a bibliography, but never is there a book reference or let alone a page reference to a book to back up his statements.
His facts are often wrong. On page 128, he calls Marblehead, Massachusetts, Mobilehead. He slyly omits the fact on page 351, that the notorious "Hair Buyer" Hamiliton, the British Commander in the Western outposts who bought the scalps of men, women and children, had this name attributed to him. He only emphizises that Americans scalped victims. On page 355, he says that perhaps Americans killed an Indian chief. No proof is offered, he just feels like offering the statement. On page 365, he mixes up Charlestown, Massachusetts with Charleston, South Carolina. No proof reader here. And on page 350 he states that there were West Virginians. West Virginia did not even exist at the time.
Poor job Mr. Harvey with your myths.
A revised look at the American Revolution.......2006-01-30
Journalist Robert Harvey has attempted to write a "corrective" regarding the American Revolution; it's his belief that the Americans have mythologized and glorified the events and people involved, while the British have merely ignored them. Considering both trends to be negative and counter-productive, he has written this book with the hope of bringing both sides into better balance.
At the beginning Harvey states that "virtually every common assumption has to be substantially modified, if not rejected." Some of these "assumptions" that he challenges include: Americans were not just motivated by a love of liberty, but more by economic self-interest and internal social unrest; a large number of Americans opposed resistance to Britain (8% of the population left America after the war); British commanders were incompetent while America's were geniuses; Saratoga was "the turning point" of the War; and French intervention "saved" the colonies from destruction. Harvey's most compelling argument regarding these objections is with the French intervention: he points out, and it makes sense, that when the French decided to back the American cause, it forced the British to concentrate its naval power off the European continent rather than against the colonies. The least compelling concerns his dismissing the British military leaders as being "merely" arrogant or lazy or overconfident - faults in generals that have wrecked many an army.
Harvey is usually pretty fair-minded, and instead of totally debunking standard beliefs (he points out Washington's failures in the War, which the mythologists try to ignore, but recognizes his strengths, too), he re-examines them in a more critical light. I thought his final chapter on the creation of the Constitution after the country almost fell to anarchy, bankruptcy, and internal revolt after the British were defeated to be the best. He is quick to point out that the truly amazing thing about the Constitution and the "American experiment" in democracy was how they were able to combine individual freedoms with a set body of laws, to put controls on what undoubtedly would have spun off into total chaos. He is very impressed with how the Constitution was hammered out and what it finally meant for a free republic - as we all should still be today. Harvey writes engagingly and with verve, and his book is a most interesting one. Whether his goals in writing the book were ever actually achieved (see my first paragraph above), it's hard to say (my guess would be doubtful), I personally got much pleasure from reading it. Recommended.
Littler Bit of How the Other Side Saw It.......2005-11-08
As someone who isn't very familiar with the American Revolution, I was looking for a summary history, preferably one that didn't get bogged down in the mythology that all too often surrounds old wars. Harvey's book fit the requirements. He summarizes the war well, though admittedly from a British prespective. He also provides a "reality check" of sorts for what we Americans have been taught to believe happened. Washington still comes out a hero, but one with noticeably fewer Godlike qualities, and a man who actually made some serious mistakes. Harvey also defends the Loyalists as not the Devils they are often painted to be. And, he points out that the British actually won most of the battles.
A couple of intersting ideas, the French really won the war for the Americans, and a lot of those American "lovers of freedom"
also loved the idea of slavery. Hmmm. The British's experience in the Colonies was very similar to the Americans experiences in Vietnam a couple of hunderd years later.
I'd defintely recommend the book.
The American War........2005-05-27
At last, a book that scrapes away all the patriotic, American propaganda and rhetoric surrounding this conflict for the last two-hundred years and produces an unbiased, accurate, even-handed and honest version of events for the first time.
The American War has deliberately been distorted ever since it was fought by American historians eager to promote their 'creation myth' in the style they're have liked it to have happened; namely righteous, noble, American heroes battling evil, dastardly, incompetent British redcoats. But this isn't the reality.
This book is a fascinating and detailed overview of the whole of the American War that manages to resist the modern American failing of lapsing into self-indulgent, patriotic wallowing and just tells us what happened, when, where and why.
Most American writers would have you believe that the British were military inept buffoons during this war, but that isn't the truth, just patriotic boasting. Also the idea that the Americans won the war by sniping at the dumb British redcoats from behind trees with accurate rifles is false. In fact, both sides used riflemen, but mostly smooth-bore muskets.
George Washington is also correctly exposed as a mediocre general who lost two-thirds of the battles he fought against the British. And of those he won, he had a large numerical advantage over the enemy in each. Washington certainly wasn't the great military genius his admirers would have us all believe today.
Interestingly, the myth about 'British tyranny' provoking the American Colonies to rebel is examined and smashed. In fact, the American Colonies had all the freedoms that the Britons back home did. Trouble started when a radical, hard-line group of the American elite came to power and wanted to break away to pursue their own, selfish, agenda.
Only when this demand was refused did the cries about 'British tyranny' begin. But, then again, if you're an American Rebel trying to engineer a war and stir up unjustified trouble, what else are you going to say to encourage fellow Americans to join the army and hate the British! British tyranny to the American Colonies was merely a myth to justify the war.
The reality was that the British won most of the battles and captured most of the biggest settlements. The Rebels spent most of the war on the defensive, usually retreating instead of risking pitched battles where possible. The French came in and saved the Rebels by giving them money and military aid!
That's more or less the truth of it, as demonstrated in this uncompromising book. Of course, modern Americans don't want people to know that, so they assault us with fanciful, Brit-bashing, historically inaccurate, drivel such as Mel Gibson's 'The Patriot' instead. However, reading this book is well worth your time.
For example, the idea, popular amongst Americans today, that the Rebels won the Battle of Bunker Hill. In fact, as this book convincingly demonstrates, the British actually won the battle but the Americans are too proud to admit it and thus claim victory even today!
This is a great book! Acquire and read at all cost if you want to know about the REAL American War rather than cinematic nonsense like `The Patriot'. It really does explode some outrageous myths and puts it straight for once and all...
Remove the Rose coloured glasses!.......2005-04-15
If you're one of those people who believe that Washington never told a lie then this isn't the book for you, or maybe it should be.
From the time of the revolution, America it seems wished to ditch the folk heroes of the British heritage, but needed to replace them with a whole host of homegrown, Robin Hoods, King Arthurs, and even the occasional Lady Godiva.
This beautifully crafted work is remarkably even handed in its approach of the subject of the American revolution. The fact that the author does not call the Sons of Liberty terrorists, is testament to that.
A more realistic view of the strengths, weaknesses, treachery, and dastardly doings of both sides in this conflict I have never read. Pieced together with the political shennanigans of the Americans in their dealings with both friend and foe alike and putting the war in its place as a sideshow in a much broader global conflict between Britain and France.
The author does not neglect the British political establishment either, and its failure to conduct the war in a manner which may have brought a successful conclusion. Drawing many parallels with such conflicts as Vietnam.
When one reads this very readable and highly entertaining book, you will be in no doubt that Britain and her loyal colonial and German allies, were engaged in the first WAR ON TERROR against, the Traitorous Colonials and their French,Spanish and later Dutch axis of evil.
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Title: A Few Bloody Noses: the Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution.
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