Stolen Figs And Other Adventures in Calabria
, by Rotella, MarkNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780865476967 | 0865476969
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/2004
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'sStolen Figs--named a Best Travel Book of 2003 byCondeacute; 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 Figsis 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.