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

On 21 and 22 July, Ed and I  are going to California for a dinner at Signorello Vineyards honoring The Tuscan Sun Cookbook. Chef Michael McMillan has planned a scrumptious winery dinner, beginning with drinks by the infinity pool overlooking the grapes that are on their way to being the wonderful wines we’re drinking. Check [...]

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You never know what May will bring in Tuscany. We’ve been here two weeks and have had four glorious, sunny days and the rest wind, chill, and rain. I’m telling myself that’s good–I can start to focus on a new project and get my concentration back, after a dizzy March and April, when I was [...]

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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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