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" A traveller's guide and a love letter to a place and a way of living. This is great food writing in the spirit of Elizabeth David."
- Joan Didion
" Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savours every flavour, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures."
- Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun)
- Joan Didion
" Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savours every flavour, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures."
- Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun)
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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.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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 is that because some of the places listed are very local they are also quite hard to find - so except maybe a bit of driving around looking for the restaurant. Then again, you get to see far more of the countryside that way, so it is not all bad.
After each restaurant entry (complete with address, pricing bracket and directions) Beth provides a wonderful chatty style summary of the style of place, food and owner. More importantly to any foodies out there she also includes at least one of the restaurants staple dishes so that you can go home and re-produce the fantastic food you ate.
I cannot rate this book highly enough if you are planning to visit the Florence area. Read, travel, eat, enjoy!
After each restaurant entry (complete with address, pricing bracket and directions) Beth provides a wonderful chatty style summary of the style of place, food and owner. More importantly to any foodies out there she also includes at least one of the restaurants staple dishes so that you can go home and re-produce the fantastic food you ate.
I cannot rate this book highly enough if you are planning to visit the Florence area. Read, travel, eat, enjoy!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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 and have found thanks to the book some wonderful, but out of the way places that we would probably never have discovered by ourselves. For those for whom food is key part of the holiday or for those who want to find out about the less touristed parts of Tuscany 'off the beaten track' as the sub-title states, this is a great book. It also serves a duel function of being a good read before a trip for planning and getting in the mood but also useful to bring along for routes, places to see and places to eat when you're actually in Tuscany (if travelling by car, not a public transport oriented book) If, like me, you plan your days out around a good lunch, then it's the ideal book!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a really useful guide. It lists some excellent restaurants that we would otherwise have missed. It also contains sample recipes.
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Tasting Tuscany seems to be a well researched (though now quite old) and interesting read with some good recipes. Read more
Published 7 months ago by MKRC
This product was lost in the post but was promptly replaced by Amazon....
This item was lost in the post along with other items and was promptly replaced, without have had to go though complicated questions about how or where I lived. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Lucca Lover
Tasting Tuscany - a fun book to accompany your travels!
I bought Tasting Tuscany for my husband just before our trip to the region in July as we love Italian food and wanted to explore places off the beaten track, not crowded with... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mrs. Kathryn Green
Where to get REAL food
Some realy special places reviewed here with interesting driving itineries. The recipes from the osterias are great, A travel guide, a food guide & a recipe book of Tuscany!!
Published 20 months ago by G. Simpson
Off the beaten track
As it says in the title-little known restaurants and trattorias in less obvious and touristy places. Good descriptions of how to reach them and sights along the way. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2010 by S. Hall
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. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2007 by Index Research
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