Tour for The Tuscan Sun Cookbook
March 2nd, 2012
Marco Polo, speaking. I’m embarking in a couple of weeks on a long giro in support of The Tuscan Sun Cookbook.
Please click on TOUR to check out my stops. My thanks to those who have invited me and planned such fantastic, fun, varied events.
I would love to meet blog friends! Ed and I hope you like the book and find recipes that you make your own in it.
Buona fortuna e divertiti!
Long time New Zealand Fan here, wondering if you are ever going to come to New Zealand for a book tour…we would love to see you here. ( I do think you have visited us before).
Ciao Tania, Yes, I’ve been twice and it’s penciled onto my schedule for the next book. Hope so–would love to spend some leisure time there too. Frances
Tania, Thanks–yes, I’ve been twice, and it’s penciled in for my next book. Hope so! Frances
What?! Not a single stop in Canada? We love you up here too you know! I am tempted to hop on a plane and fly to San Fransisco (one of my favourite cities) but alas, I have a prior commitment on March 31st *sigh*. Any chance at all you will visit the Vancouver, BC area? Or at the very least, Washington State?? Still, I wish you good luck with the tour – I can hardly wait to receive my copy of The Tuscan Sun Cookbook. I pre-ordered it months ago!! You are awesome and thank you for this fantastic blog and all your wonderful books. I will get to Italy one day!!
Trish
A huge CANADIAN fan!
So what have all the Californians done to deserve all your time!? I would love to meet you on one of your tour stops… but they are all so far away. Do you ever give talks in Italy? Much closer to me than California… it would be an excuse to have a short break as well.
Katherine, thanks for asking. I sometimes speak at festivals in Italy but none is on the horizon right now. I’ll be in Budapest in June! Frances
Dear Frances,
I don’t understand why you only tour in the US. You have sooo many readers in Europe, too…so sad.
Chris
Chris–Thanks. I will be in Budapest for the book fair in June! Frances
I checked out your tour schedule and it seems that CA may be the closest to AZ. I love the Getty Villa and have not visited since before the Griffins were removed, so perhaps it is time for another visit. Do you know if advance tickets will be necessary for entry?
Marsha, great! Not sure–check their site in a few days. It’s a talk in the auditorium followed by lunch in their restaurant. Hope to see you! Frances
So sorry to see you won’t be visiting Texas. Would love to meet you and get a signed copy of the cookbook!
So sorry you won’t be visiting Texas! Would love to meet you and get a signed copy of the cookbook!
I see that you will be in CA the 22nd of July, the day before we leave CA. We will stay most of out three weeks in US near the Sacramento area, but the last days in LA. So it seems like I will miss you.
Well, one day I´ll invite you to Norway you know :-)
Good Lord, Frances……..I just looked at your tour schedule. Talk about “Che Brutto!”. I second, third, fourth, and fifth that emotion to the n’th degree. It’s a good thing you enjoy these tours; I can’t imagine doing anything (let along smiling and making pleasant conversation) for one tenth of the time you’re scheduled to be on the boards.
and now…for your and your readers? One of your recipes set me a-looking through my cookbooks this morning. Just as I was about to slave over a hot scanner, I was delightedly surprised to find that one of my favorite Italy-goes-to-Jerusalem-&arrives-in-America-Via-London recipes is available online (it seems to have been featured in “Gourmet” a couple of years ago).
Somewhat in explanation of the recipe’s provenance? Suffice it to say that the author, Yotem Ottolenghi, is the London-based, Jerusalem-born&raised grandson of emigrant Tuscan Sephardic Jews (throw in his other set of German emigrant grandparents, and you get a sense of how varied this man’s culinary influences are).
In any case, this is the recipe for a variation on Nonna Luciana’s orange-polenta cake. It’s marvelous. The recipe is from the invigorating, very lively “Ottolenghi: The Cookbook” (Ebury Press, 2010…I think).
GO YE TO:
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2009/02/orange-polenta-cake
Level Best as Ever,
David Terry
http://www.davidterryart.com
I saw the movie a while ago, maybe I’ll take another look.About the signs, well, sioetmmes they’re not easy to recognize. I once had a dream about a girl called Bianca (meaning White in Italian) I found her on a beach, but the rocks were made of ice and the sand was snow, she looked like an angel and I just wanted to touch her, just to make sure that was not a dream. She told me that she was of a different race, she could not be touched unless the one to do it truly loved her, otherwise she would die. I was so sure about my feelings so I tried to reach and she ran, eventually I got her and guess what, she didn’t die. Okay, next day I woke up and remembered that dream better than any other but nothing. Later that night I was at a bar with a friend and I was speaking about the dream while we were buying tobacco from a machine, suddenly I noticed the brand of the machine standing in front of me and guess what it was written Bianca both me and him were like: Whoa! What the hell one week later I received an Italian in my home for a couple of days because he came with a couple of students to see my school and one of his friends was at this girl’s house so we all met after school to take a walk around Lisbon with the italians guess what, one week I was in love for that girl from my school who I had never seen before and so was she I felt the sign, the dream, the tobacco machine, the italians I jumped right in and guess what, we’re together for six years now and we love each other more and more everyday.Maybe that wasn’t a sign and we being together it’s just meant to be. Who knows? I do!Be well.Pedro Mota’s last blog post..[]
I was hoping the tour would make it to Texas as well. I am in the Austin, Texas area; I am sure you would be welcomed by many here. I hope to see you on a tour someday.
Ciao !
Thank You Frances and Edward for a lovely book.I have just purchased The Tuscan Sun Cookbook here in Helsinki.
It´s not only a cookbook but also a bit of Italy.
You have a wonderful kitchen and garden.
Looking forward to seeing you in Washington,DC again. I so enjoyed your talk last year at National Geographic. Will Ed be accompanying you? He and I are both Hollins alums.
Wow! You’ll need a big rest after this book tour! I am so happy I will be able to meet you at A Southern Season, at last! I also look forward to trying some more of your delicious recipes.
Arrivederci!
Sally
Frances,
I hope you visit Books & Books again in Coral Gables, Florida. I tried to change a meeting so I could be there some years ago. It’s time to come on down again.
Just a peek at the tour and we see the pure magic that paired Frances & Edward – two poets, artists, dreamers, designers, lovers of food, people, all things beautiful, she needs to travel, he loves to drive – one town to the next – like so many of the recipes in your books, an inspired pairing – have fun on the road – sleep well – come back to Spring -
A’Delle and I look forward to the book tour. We actually found Farro (from EVERY DAY TUSCANY) at our Italian grocer. It cooked up in ten minutes just fine and works good in stews without too many spuds. My cousin Frances Day in North Carolina says the Dairy Parlour is the last building standing on my grandfather’s farm outside Oxford. Wanting to go there but might have to catch the tour here in California, or maybe outside of Rome as we have to go this year. Sorry for this disjointed message. Bill
Frances,
Listening to a tape of A Year in the World…excellent, but your pronunciations of so many words are way off-track. Delphe? NO. Delphi.
Moound? No. Mound, like pound. And so many others…shocking.
Ciao Judith, thanks for writing. You might have missed something on the tape. On p. 267 of the actual book, I say that I’d always said Delphi, long i, and that our Greek guide very strongly corrected me and said Delpheee was the way intelligent people pronounced the word! Same with Corfu. Not sure what you mean by Moound??? Writing a book that crossed many, many languages, I may have pronounced something wrong along the way. I did have a professional linguist on hand who helped with unfamiliar Arab, Portuguese, etc. but maybe something slipped by. Keep in mind that the way we know a pronunciation is sometimes quite different than the local pronunciation. I wish I spoke 15 languages!! Don’t you? (Or maybe you do!) Frances
Judith – I’ve been married 43 yrs to a native Georgia boy – his pronunciation is quite close to Frances’ – and I just love it! It is more lilt than accent. It’s part and parcel of the charm. Relax and listen slowly.
Frances, I was an Chi O, Eta Delta, close friend of Helen Graham Andersen, and Sara Lynn Alday McCrae. I live in Wilmington, NC, just a hop and skip from Raleigh….and was President of our Friends of the Library. Is there any way you could work in a visit to us to promote your new book? We have a Williams Sonoma too, so if that is important we could work with them, too. It would mean the world to us, as so many people I know love your books.
Anne Witters Langan
I was a Chi O at UF,Eta Delta, with Helen Graham and Sara Lynn Alday, and I now live in Wilmington, NC. I love your books, as do so many folks here. I have been president of our Friends of the Library, and wondered if there is any way you would consider coming over to speak here? We are less than 2 hours from Raleigh…and we have a Williams Sonoma if that is a factor.
Thank you, Anne Langan
Anne–Sara Lynn was my roommate! I remember Helen–so serious. I’d love to speak to your library in Wilmington sometime. I have spoken before at a wonderful restored theatre there. Thanks for writing–Frances