Frances Mayes's Journal Travel, Food, Books, People

The book tour for The Tuscan Sun Cookbook was like a party that lasted a month! Here are some of the fine people and times:
At Warwick’s in La Jolla. Photographer Steven Rothfeld on right.

At Genentech:

At Left Bank in Larkspur CA:

Above is the reunion of the crew that made the film Under the Tuscan Sun. On [...]

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Buona sera,
The initial tour for The Tuscan Sun Cookbook will come to a grand finale at Antonia’s, a neighborhood restaurant in Hillsborough NC this Thursday, 19 April,  at 6:30. We will be happy to see many friends who have begun to forget us because we’ve been busy or gone for so long!  Claudia is setting [...]

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The book tour for The Tuscan Sun Cookbook has been exciting and exhausting and fun. All the events are just so enjoyable. I’ve been posting some photos along the way on Twitter and Facebook.  Today we were at the food and cookware mecca, A Southern Season, in Chapel Hill with our friend Susan Gravely, who [...]

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Ed and I hope to meet real-life Facebook friends this week.
On March 20, 10am-2pm, we’ll be at The Art Institute of Chicago’s Terzo Piano. That evening at 6:30, we’ll be at The Book Stall in Winnetka IL.
I go on to Atlanta on Wednesday, where I speak at The Atlanta History Center at 8pm.
Then on March [...]

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During the photo shoots for The Tuscan Sun Cookbook, Steven Rothfeld shot a few scenes with his video camera. Here they are–our vegetable garden and our kitchen at the mountain house, my favorite kitchen I’ve ever had. It’s not huge but it just works so well, especially for two cooks. The stove is central in [...]

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