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April 21st, 2010
http://app.streamsend.com/private/oPeF/v6v/xBn5dUT/browse/10320681
Our Bramasole Olive Oil is featured on the Taste Book site and I’d love for one of my blog friends to win.
They also have links to three recipes from Every Day in Tuscany.
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Hello Ms. Mayes,
Thank you for sharing this link. What a wonderful site! I signed up for the contest and I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I made the steamed chocolate cake with vanilla sauce for my husband from Falconiere and as usual like everything else I’ve made from Everyday in Tuscany it was fabulous! I already posted a blog on 3/15 under “Around our House Excitement is Building” but I just wanted to drop a quick thank you for the Taste Book site. We are counting the days to our upcoming stay at Villa La Certosa in Cortona next month and cannot wait to have dinner at Falconiere restaurant. Lovely to hear you enjoyed all your destinations on your book tour and you’re still taking time out to stop and smell the roses….even if the pollen gets to you at times
Be Well!
Many thanks,
Sandra
I am so glad to have found your web site.I have been to Tuscany twice and have thought from the first that this was the only place out side the US I could ever live. I read Under The Tuscan Sun right after arriving home from my first trip to Tuscany.Then in October of 2008 went back and am now reading Every Day in Tuscany. What I find so interesting is that The first time I went to Italy we stayed in Fonterutoli, renting out the bottom of a home for our time in Tuscany.Then this last time we stayed at Il Poggio del Sole in the lower part of their home. Reading this book has been like going back in time (well almost). I find my self constantly thinking of the beatiful warm fall days and cool nights exploring streets, towns, and cities so very rich in history while making history of my own. Many has been the time that I have wanted to recreate some part of that wonderful experiance. I know why you bought Bramasole and continually go back to that beatiful place.
I am so happy to have foound your website. I am in the middle of reading Every Day in Tuscany, enjoying it more than I ever thought I could. I saw the cover and thought right away, that store right there is where I bought my little red purse!
You see, I was in Italy just two years ago. We stayed out side Cortona in the bottom of a lovely farm house -Il poggio del Sole, run by a lovely family. Six years prior to that we were in a different part Tuscany. A small town that (at lest at that time) did not even have a traffic light, but had some of the most wonderful little streets, Fonterutoli.
My mind wonders often to the wonderful warm fall days with cool nights. Days of exploring new sights and sounds and long evenings spent over the dinner table talking about everything that had happened that day and planning for the next.
The love with which you speak of Itay is totally understandable as this is the only place I could live out side the USA. Thank you for bringing it to life, to be able to enjoy it all over again is a real treat!
Hello Ms. Mayes,
Five pages are now loosely kept in the May 2000 issue of Bon Apppetite. They have fallen out from use.
I know what goes into a swiss chard/ herb tart, but what goes into a nettle herb tart?
I know I need Parmesan, oregano and thyme for the swiss chard but what goes in to a nettle herb tart?
Too I know, swiss chard the ricotta,
So a second cheese for the swiss chard herb tart,
But what goes in two the nettle?
I really would like a recipe if you have one.
Thanks,
Charles
Charles–just substitute the nettles for the chard. The nettles must be very, very young. Would omit the oregano. Frances
Hi Frances!
We walked by your home Thursday in Cortona (bella!) … we had hoped to see you and have you sign our copy of your most recent book … we bought a home in umbria in a 100 person medieval village a little over two years ago … in part inspired by your story … thanks for sharing your stories …
Marty and Terri Lang
Madison, Wisconsin (and Castello delle Forme, PG)
Hi Ms.Mayes,
I fell in love with Tuscany after seeing the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun” and then reading your books. My husband and I have talked about a visit to Italy for several years now and after starting the adoption process we decided that we should go ahead and take our dream vacation before becoming parents. While our travel agent was busy planning out our trip, I was sure to tell her that Cortona was a must stop on our tour of Italy.
It was such a nice rest after the hustle and bustle of Venice and Florence and was so much more than I could have even imagined, but there was one thing I was dissapointed in and that was the unfriendliness of the locals. Maybe it was just the people that we came into contact with but our impression was that they were not very thrilled to have tourists in their city. I was very surprised and wrote it off at first but after day two the feeling was still there. We even spoke with a couple that own a business there now (I will not name on here) but they are not from Cortona and they told us that they soley depend on tourists because locals will not patron there. I found that to be very sad for them.
I just thought I’d share that with you since you are what inspired our visit. It was very beautiful though and we even walked out to Bramasole and took a few pictures
Thanks & many blessings!
Melody, S.C.
Melody, good grief, how weird. You must have hit on a universal bad mood day because usually the local people are super friendly. I think it’s true that when non-locals open a business, they struggle. People who live here have old patronages to friends, relatives, neighbors and just keep to their routines rather than seek out a new bar or shop. Not out of anything other than long habits. Come back! Frances
Hi Frances, i loved your book. you are an amazing writer. see you in october….Fondly, sharon
It’s posts like this that keep me coming back and checking this site regularly, thanks for the info!
I have just started your newest book, “Every Day in Tuscany” and I just realized that while I am reading your words, the voice in my head is that of LYNNE ROSSETTO KASPER (Host of public radio’s “The Splendid Table.”) I love her voice because it is all warm and buttery, and that is the same feeling I get when I read your books!
Dear Ms Mayes.
Your website suggested the best way to contact you was to post a comment, so here tis:)
Firstly and most importantly, I want to thank you so much for your books, which are constant companions to me, providing inspiration and pleasure. I have a question to pose to you vis roses. I live in Victoria, Australia (and am a gardener by trade!). In recent years, the weather has become much hotter and drier (much to my chagrin). I have read about the intense summer heat you have in Tuscany. Does this affect your roses as it does ours, whereby after a day of 40 degree heat, the stems turn black (presumably as a result of the “water” in the boiling and scalding). I have found the only way to cope is by spraying them with water in the evenings if I can.
I won’t ramble, but thank you for your time.
Richard
Richard–Black stems–no. That sounds very strange. (What I’m plagued with is Japanese beetles.) Sounds like misting them early and late would help if the climate is dry, dry. The summers here for the last several years have been cooler and have started later–part of the global climate chaos. I just arrived and spring is very late. My roses are laden with buds so I’m looking forward to a splendid season of bloom. Let me know if you find out more. Thanks for writing–Frances
Dear Ms. Mayes:
I have enojoyed looking at your website and reading your books. Your article in the magazine was very interesting. I am glad that you will be able to answer the questions of my book club.
Thanks for all of your work.
Dear Ms. Mayes,
I am currently reading Bella Tuscany. I have been to Italy in 2007 & 2008 but haven’t been to Sicily or Naples (where my parents were from) You have been an inspiration for me to seriously consider a move to Italy. My husband & I are pushing 60 and never would have had the courage to even consider such a move before. It may take a couple years but we will see what happens. I have marked places you write about for must sees! I hope to go again early next year to take my daughter there for the first time. Thank you for your wonderful books. I will read them all.
Ciao,
Maria
My dear Frances,
Your books are a great friend to me and it is a great pleasure to read them -even for the billion time!
You are a great sweet lady that knows how to enjoy life and appreciate every little thing,something that we all should do.
I would like to give you back some of the joy you have given us,so please contact me in order to receive a special appreciation gift.
Please continue to amaze us with your great books.
Maria
Maria, very sweet of you! I am in Italy all summer so let’s be in touch later. Grazie–Frances
Dear Frances,
Ack, steamed chocolate cake does not work at high altitude! There were six mini explosions in the oven, then sad collapses. There is a self-cleaning oven, though, and the cakes still tasted good. Back to the mountain kitchen/chemistry lab! Really enjoyed the new book and looking forward to going on a scavenger hunt of Medieval/Renaissance art this summer. Many thanks for writing about the Italy of our dreams!
Robin–oh, dio! Six explosions–sounds exciting but messy. Frances
Dear Frances and Fellow Readers,
I want to keep buying from Frances, so she can keep inspiring me to expand my world (Also loved A Year in the World.
It took me 3 days to read the last ten pages of Every Day in Tuscany, not that I’m THAT slow of a reader, but I could feel the impending end and just couldn’t bring myself to say goodbye.
A trip to the bookstore is beckoning as I have missed reading a few previous books and plan to get a hardcopy(it is on my Reader) of Everyday in Tuscany, to access the recipes more readily, and although I’m saving $$ to go to Tuscany myself in 2011 (40th anniversary, 60th birthday
Best of Luck and Adventure on your book tour and Happy Anniversary at Bramasole this summer…you will have lots of positive energy floating your way as you celebrate!!
With Admiration,
Connie
Valuable info. Lucky me I found your site by accident, I bookmarked it.
Check This Link The Official Website and Blog of Frances MayesI just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts.6/8/2010
Check This Link The Official Website and Blog of Frances MayesI just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts.6/9/2010
Dear Frances,
I want to tell you how grateful I am for your books. I was raised in Italy,and haven’t been back in many years. In reading your books, I can pause,close my eyes and hear the voices ( I sometimes dream in Italian ),smell the county-side and delight in all things Italian.
I am so excited about your new cooking book. I have tried your dishes before with great success. I don’t know if is is the altitude here in Colorado or my tart pan was too small 11″, but the plum tart was a disaster. It ran like Vesuvius’ molten lava but did smell devine. Did I not follow the directions correctly? It seemed there was enough pastry for 2 tarts.
Grazie,
Mar