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| A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure | 
 enlarge | Author: Marlena De Blasi
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (24 reviews)
Sales Rank: 17176
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0345481097
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59455
EAN: 9780345481092
ASIN: 0345481097
Publication Date: September 27, 2005
Release Date: September 27, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Over to quickly! May 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found myself reading slower as I got near the end of this story. I didn't want it to end. A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE was a delightful book but I found this one more captivating. Ms. De Blasi weaves a beautiful, true adventure as if the reader was traveling along with her each step of the way. Her descriptions and characters are so real in her words I thought I might be there. BRAVA, de Blasi!!!!!!!!!
I'm in love with De Blasi's Italy May 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've read A Thousand Days in Venice, A Thousand Days in Tuscany and The Lady in the Palazzo. Once I started the first, A Thousand Days in Venice, I was hooked. These are love stories about an American woman of a certain age who fell in love with a Venetian man of a certain age, and more. De Blasi loves this blueberry eyed man with a passion not to be duplicated. She also loves the people, the food, the customs the land. She learns to live in Italy, speak the language, read and dream in Italian and she pushes the box each time she reaches out to someone, which is often. Her recipes are wonderfull. I'm trying to figure out if I can find walnut flour in Minnesota.
Read it as a travelog, as a cookbook, as a love story. Just read all of the books.
 A Thousand Days in Tuscany January 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is a good book but rather slow. However, I will have to say I have enjoyed reading about this woman's time living in Tuscany. The recipes that she wrote really sound good. I will be trying some.
She shows her love of Italy through her writings November 5, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read her first book A Thousand Days in Venice and enjoyed it very much. It seemed so real like we were sitting over coffee discussing her life. It made me want to walk the same places she walked and see the same markets to bring it to life for me too.
She has a smooth way of writing that is enjoyable. And the recipes are wonderful.
She again brought Tuscany to life for me and I wanted to see the villages and cucina's there. I am looking forward to the 2007 book.
 If you liked the Venice book, you'll like this one! July 13, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I like the way MDB writes, and this sequel has the benefit of not making her husband, Fernando, seem as obnoxious as he did in the Venice book. This book is more about food (my God, is she obsessed with food!), the villagers, and the various other characters they meet around Tuscany. In this book MDB seems to have settled into her marriage and learned how to handle Fernando and his moodiness (yay).
I tried the recipe for white beans cooked with herbs, wine and olive oil and the flavor was sublime, although the cooking time was much too long. (Cook's note: Don't pre-cook them in plain water -- just mix the pre-soaked, drained, uncooked beans with all of the other ingredients EXCEPT the salt; simmer 20 min., add the salt, then test them after another 20 min. of cooking. You can also get away with much less oil -- fewer calories!). Anyway, I'll definitely make them again, as well as the Castagnaccio (chestnut-flour bread).
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