Tuscany and Umbria
Subtitle: the collected traveler
By: edited by Barrie Kerper
Series: The collected traveler; Vintage departures
Publisher: Vintage Books; Vintage
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780307474902
Other titles: Central Italy, Tuscany & Umbria.
Notes: "An inspired companion guide."

"A Vintage departures original"--T.p. verso.

Previous ed.: New York : Three Rivers Press, 2000, with title Central Italy, Tuscany & Umbria.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Italy; title: My Italy / by Erica Jong; title: Welcome to our rented nightmare / by Mary-Lou Weisman; title: Buon viaggio : a bouquet of reminders / by Kate Simon; title: pt. 2. Tuscany; title: The trouble with Tuscany / by Fred Plotkin; title: Market day in a Tuscan town / by Frances Mayes; title: Italy's best-kept secret / by David Leavitt; title: Only in Tuscany / by Dan Hofstadter; title: Coming home to chianti / by Gini Alhadeff; title: Lucca : a Tuscan treasure / by Lorraine Alexander; title: Siena in three acts / by William Zinsser; title: Interview: Frances Mayes; title: Interview: Charlie Conrad; title: pt. 3. Umbria; title: Perugia / by Nadia Stancioff; title: Spoleto : a town for all seasons / by Nadia Stancioff; title: The hills of the sublime / by G.Y. Dryansky; title: Interview: Joan and Roger Arndt; title: pt. 4. Florence; title: The first time I saw Florence / by Sallie Tisdale; title: The other side of the Arno / by Jo Durden-Smith; title: Florence, then and now / by Adam Begley; title: Learning to live with arrivederci / by Susan Jacoby; title: Interview: Lisa McGarry; title: pt. 5. La cucina Italiana; title: Beaneaters and bread soup / by Lori De Mori; title: Italy's original garlic bread / by S. Irene Virbila; title: Tuscan olive oils / by Faith Heller Willinger; title: Italy's vin santo : a sip of hospitality / by S. Irene Virbila; title: Nach Waxman and Matt Sartwell favorite food books : an interview; title: Interview: Sergio Esposito; title: pt. 6. A tavola! Eating out in Tuscany and Umbria; title: Florentine trattorias / by Faith Willinger; title: Florence : a restaurant renaissance / by Faith Willinger; title: Valle del Serchio and the Garfagnana / by Beth Elon; title: Interview: Faith Willinger; title: Piazze, gardini, e monumenti; title: Back roads of Tuscany / by William Sertl; title: Botticelli's Primavera / by Roy McMullen; title: The cloisters of Florence / by Louis Inturrisi; title: The Last Supper, seen six ways / by Louis Inturrisi; title: A Tuscan and Umbrian miscellany.