Under the Tuscan Sun At Home in Italy

"This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy,loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it's so delicious, read it first yourself."-USA Today
For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS'sDream of Italy:Tuscan Sun Special!
More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes-widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer-introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole.Under the Tuscan Suninspired generations to embark on their own journeys-whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book's dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes's signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition ofUnder the Tuscan Sunrevisits the book's mostpopularcharacters.