STOLEN FIGS and other ADVENTURES in CALABRIA *
Language: English
Published by North Point Press, New York * * * * *, 2003
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Book: Fine/, $21.80 0865476276 STOLEN FIGS and other ADVENTURES in CALABRIA * ROTELLA, Mark North Point Press New York * * * * * 2003 1sT Edition, 1sT Printing Mustard Yellow Colored Spine And Title In Red And Blue Letters On Spine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine/Almost Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Front Interior Flap, $25.00 / $41.50. Hard Cover Book: Fine/, Slightest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 310 Numbered Pages Appear To Be Lightly Read, Clean And Tight To The Spine In: As New/, Condition. This Book Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X. * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *.
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- Title
- STOLEN FIGS and other ADVENTURES in CALABRIA *
- Author
- ROTELLA, Mark
- Publisher
- North Point Press, New York * * * * *
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0865476276
- ISBN 13
- 9780865476271
- Illustrator
- 2003 Book: Fine/,
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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 the scorching summers while the sea crashes against the cliffs on both coasts. 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 is a marvelous evocation of Calabria and Calabrians, whose way of life is largely untouched by the commerce that has made Tuscany and Umbria into international tourist redoubts. A grandson of Calabrian 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 to all things Calabrian. As they travel around the region, Giuseppe initiates Rotella—and the reader—into its secrets: how to make soppressata and ’nduja, where to find hidden chapels and grottoes, and, of course, how to steal a fig without actually committing a crime. Stolen Figs is a model travelogue—at once charming and wise, and full of the earthy and unpretentious sense of life that, now as ever, characterizes Calabria and its people.
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