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Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark RotellaPublish date:2004-05-01Pages:310
Language:EnglishPublisher:North Point PressISBN-13:9780865476967ISBN-10:865476969UPC:9780865476967Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Europe, Essays & Travelogues, South AmericaBook Topic:ItalySize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCTH3YFPXH

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 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:North Point PressISBN-13:9780865476967ISBN-10:865476969UPC:9780865476967Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Europe, Essays & Travelogues, South AmericaBook Topic:ItalySize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCTH3YFPXH

Mark Rotella works as an editor at Publishers Weekly. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.


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