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Stolen Figs : And Other Adventures in Calabria by Mark Rotella (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100865476969

ISBN-139780865476967

eBay Product ID (ePID)30265472

Product Key Features

Book TitleStolen Figs : and Other Adventures in Calabria

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / Italy, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Social Science, History

AuthorMark Rotella

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsMr. Rotella is not writing tourist or voyeur gastronomy; he is writing about food and life. And his Stolen Figs , with its travels and sights and encounters, goes beyond any of these things. It is about life: Calabrians' and ultimately his own., "Mr. Rotella is not writing tourist or voyeur gastronomy; he is writing about food and life. And hisStolen Figs, with its travels and sights and encounters, goes beyond any of these things. It is about life: Calabrians' and ultimately his own."--Richard Eder,The New York Times "Rotella's account of his travels there, combined with family history and memories, is a charming digression from the unbearably lush memoirs of Tuscany and other more romantic parts of Italy." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella." --Gay Talese "Stolen Figsis a charming, entertaining, graceful, warm-blooded tale, a genuine contribution to what we know about who we once were." --Bill Tonelli, editor ofThe Italian American Reader "Calabria deserves to be discovered and Mark Rotella is an enthusiastic and compassionate guide, traveling from the top to the toe of this least-known region of Italy to uncover the people, the food and the folk traditions that make up his Calabrian heritage."--Mary Taylor Simeti, author of On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal, "Mr. Rotella is not writing tourist or voyeur gastronomy; he is writing about food and life. And his Stolen Figs , with its travels and sights and encounters, goes beyond any of these things. It is about life: Calabrians' and ultimately his own." -- Richard Eder, The New York Times "Rotella's account of his travels there, combined with family history and memories, is a charming digression from the unbearably lush memoirs of Tuscany and other more romantic parts of Italy." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella." -- Gay Talese " Stolen Figs is a charming, entertaining, graceful, warm-blooded tale, a genuine contribution to what we know about who we once were." -- Bill Tonelli, editor of The Italian American Reader "Calabria deserves to be discovered and Mark Rotella is an enthusiastic and compassionate guide, traveling from the top to the toe of this least-known region of Italy to uncover the people, the food and the folk traditions that make up his Calabrian heritage." -- Mary Taylor Simeti, author of On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal, "Mr. Rotella is not writing tourist or voyeur gastronomy; he is writing about food and life. And his Stolen Figs, with its travels and sights and encounters, goes beyond any of these things. It is about life: Calabrians' and ultimately his own."--Richard Eder, The New York Times "Rotella's account of his travels there, combined with family history and memories, is a charming digression from the unbearably lush memoirs of Tuscany and other more romantic parts of Italy." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella." --Gay Talese "Stolen Figs is a charming, entertaining, graceful, warm-blooded tale, a genuine contribution to what we know about who we once were." --Bill Tonelli, editor of The Italian American Reader "Calabria deserves to be discovered and Mark Rotella is an enthusiastic and compassionate guide, traveling from the top to the toe of this least-known region of Italy to uncover the people, the food and the folk traditions that make up his Calabrian heritage."--Mary Taylor Simeti, author of On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal, Rotella's account of his travels there, combined with family history and memories, is a charming digression from the unbearably lush memoirs of Tuscany and other more romantic parts of Italy., Stolen Figs is a charming, entertaining, graceful, warm-blooded tale, a genuine contribution to what we know about who we once were., "Mr. Rotella is not writing tourist or voyeur gastronomy; he is writing about food and life. And his Stolen Figs , with its travels and sights and encounters, goes beyond any of these things. It is about life: Calabrians' and ultimately his own."--Richard Eder, The New York Times "Rotella's account of his travels there, combined with family history and memories, is a charming digression from the unbearably lush memoirs of Tuscany and other more romantic parts of Italy." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella." --Gay Talese " Stolen Figs is a charming, entertaining, graceful, warm-blooded tale, a genuine contribution to what we know about who we once were." --Bill Tonelli, editor of The Italian American Reader "Calabria deserves to be discovered and Mark Rotella is an enthusiastic and compassionate guide, traveling from the top to the toe of this least-known region of Italy to uncover the people, the food and the folk traditions that make up his Calabrian heritage."--Mary Taylor Simeti, author of O n Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal, Calabria deserves to be discovered and Mark Rotella is an enthusiastic and compassionate guide, traveling from the top to the toe of this least-known region of Italy to uncover the people, the food and the folk traditions that make up his Calabrian heritage., Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella.

Dewey Decimal914.5/780493

SynopsisCalabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy. Mark Rotella's Stolen Figs -- named a Best Travel Book of 2003 by Condé Nast Traveler -- is a marvelous evocation of Calabria. A grandson of Calabrese immigrants, Rotella persuades his father to visit the region for the first time in thirty years; once there, he meets Giuseppe, a postcard photographer who becomes his guide. As they travel around the region, Giuseppe initiates Rotella -- and the reader -- into its secrets: how to make a soppressata and 'nduja, and, of course, how to steal a fig without committing a crime. Stolen Figs is a model travelogue -- at once charming and wise, and full of an earthy and unpretentious sense of life that now, as ever, characterizes Calabria and its people., Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy. Mark Rotella's Stolen Figs -- named a Best Travel Book of 2003 by Cond Nast Traveler -- is a marvelous evocation of Calabria. A grandson of Calabrese immigrants, Rotella persuades his father to visit the region for the first time in thirty years; once there, he meets Giuseppe, a postcard photographer who becomes his guide. As they travel around the region, Giuseppe initiates Rotella -- and the reader -- into its secrets: how to make a soppressata and 'nduja, and, of course, how to steal a fig without committing a crime. Stolen Figs is a model travelogue -- at once charming and wise, and full of an earthy and unpretentious sense of life that now, as ever, characterizes Calabria and its people.