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Tasting Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track
by: Beth Elon

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780553816907
ISBN: 055381690X
Label: Bantam Books
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: June 05, 2006
Publisher: Bantam Books
Studio: Bantam Books
Sales Rank: 4402

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Editorial Review:

TELEGRAPH TRAVEL, June 17 2006:
'A delight...Elon layers her food writing with colourful observations about landscape, history and folklore'

Book Description:
A wonderful book that will make you fall in love with Tuscany all over again and even better, allow you to recreate Tuscan food in your own home.

Synopsis:
Beth Elon - a renowned cookery-book writer - has lived in and loved Tuscany for more than thirty years and in "Tasting Tuscany" shares with her readers a side of Tuscany that is not widely known. Beyond the better-known cities with tourists, souvenir and fast-food shops, Tuscany is made up of hundreds of small clustered hill towns set in stunning scenery with lovely churches, piazzas and rural art that is worthy of the finest city museums. Beth has included in her book suggested itineraries so that the reader can follow in her footsteps and explore a Tuscany that is off the beaten track. A central feature of the itineraries are the restaurants that Beth has discovered over the years and which will allow the reader to experience a culture of life that values natural and traditional food. "Tasting Tuscany" includes over one hundred recipes from restaurants so that even when you are back at home you can recreate the delicious and authentic food you will have enjoyed on your travels.

From the Back Cover:
Beth Elon – a widely published cookery book writer – has lived in and loved Tuscany for more than thirty years.In TASTING TUSCANY she shares with readers her intimate knowledge of a Tuscany that has not been widely discovered. Beyond the better-known cities with tourists, souvenir and fast-food shops, Tuscany is made up of hundreds of small clustered hill towns set in stunning scenery with lovely churches, piazzas and rural art that is worthy of the finest city museums. It is this Tuscany about which Beth Elon writes so eloquently.

TASTING TUSCANY also features ten itineraries that the reader can use to explore off the beaten track. These include favourite restaurants, and over one hundred recipes, which will enable the reader to experience a culture that values natural and traditional food and allow the reader to recreate the delicious dishes back at home.

TASTING TUSCANY is a feast for all the senses.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Title says it all!
I love this book. It's an unusual mixture, a hard book to categorise, but that's its stength. For many who come to Tuscany it's the perfect mixture as the great food and beautiful scenery combined are such a part of the pleasure. Beth Elon suggests driving routes with places to see along the way, then explains the food specialities of each area,lists special places to eat, then gives a few sample recipes from each restaurant. One of the real strengths is the local specialities information, as it really highlights some of traditions and how food can be unique to a particular small location not just 'Tuscany' as a larger region. We have found the restaurants that we've tried from the book to be just as described, with excellent, good value food ... Read More:

Rating:

- The most wonderful way to eat your way around Tuscany
Being a food lover and a keen traveler it is a battle to find a travel guide which will give me the depth of information that I would like about both the area and the food. Beth Elon has produced the perfect combination for anyone like me. She combines simple day trip driving routes around the beautiful Tuscan countryside (with views to look at, churches to visit and villages to wander through) with incredible restaurants. She mixes expensive, grand restaurants with small, rustic ones where you will be the only foreigner but will feel welcomed as an honoured guest. In all the places that I ate in on my last trip I didn't have a singe bad meal in fact, given the chance I would go back and have every single one again and again. The only draw back ... Read More:

Rating:

- Buy, cook, then travel (by car).
I buy many books, but not often cookbooks. This winter, I changed this pattern and bought Beth Elon's book, Georgio Locatelli's amazing blockbuster, and River Cafe Cookbook Easy. A feast of Christmas reading. But my feelings of pride and happiness are for Beth's very personal approach. I hope that Locatelli and Gray/ Rogers will visit her. They will enjoy themselves with such a personable, beautiful woman in a very special location - and learn a lot too! There is an excellent B & B nearby.

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