" Frances Mayes is an enticing a writer about Tuscany as my other favorite author on this subject, Ferenc Mate. I finish Mayes books yearning to spend time hanging out on the piazza in Cortona, walking the woods, harvesting from field and garden, visting the towns, reading the writers and following the artists who entrance her, and of course eating the food and drinking the wine. Can there be a more bella life? "
— bookinglibrarian, 1/22/2014