Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria

Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and...
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Author: Mark Rotella
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Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria by Rotella, Mark

Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria

$49.83

Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria

$49.83
Author: Mark Rotella
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Mark Rotella
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/01/2004
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780865476967


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/02/2004 pg. 28
Library Journal 09/15/2004 pg. 92

About the Author

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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