Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9780865476967
Publisher: North Point Press
Language: English
Page Count: 310
Publication Date: 5/1/2004
Size: 8.48" l x 5.51" w x 0.84"
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Travel Europe
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. 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 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.

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