Frances Mayes

The Northshire Cookbook Reading Group will meet on Wednesday, May 2nd, at 6pm, at the Inn at Manchester. If you love to collect cookbooks, explore new recipes, and nosh on home prepared food in a group - this could be the reading experience for you!

This month, we're cooking comfort food from the delicious pages of, Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from our Italian Kitchen, by Frances Mayes. Pick up your copy in the bookstore, choose a recipe to prepare and share with the group on the night of the meeting. Please email Nancy, nscheemaker@northshire.com, to register and let her know what's cookin!

Location: Street: 3967 Main St Additional: City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The Northshire Cookbook Reading Group will meet on Wednesday, May 2nd, at 6pm, at the Inn at Manchester. If you love to collect cookbooks, explore new recipes, and nosh on home prepared food in a group - this could be the reading experience for you!

This month, we're cooking comfort food from the delicious pages of, Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from our Italian Kitchen, by Frances Mayes. Pick up your copy in the bookstore, choose a recipe to prepare and share with the group on the night of the meeting. Please email Nancy, nscheemaker@northshire.com, to register and let her know what's cookin!

Location: Street: 4869 Main St Additional: City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

New York Times bestselling author Frances Mayes will be at Warwick's on Thursday, April 5th at 1:00pm to discuss and sign her book The Tuscan Sun Cookbook. In all of Frances Mayes’s bestselling memoirs about Tuscany, food plays a starring role. This cuisine transports, comforts, entices, and speaks to the friendly, genuine, and improvisational spirit of Tuscan life. Both cooking and eating in Tuscany are natural pleasures. In her first-ever cookbook, Frances and her husband, Ed, share recipes that they have enjoyed over the years as honorary Tuscans: dishes prepared in a simple, traditional kitchen using robust, honest ingredients. A toast to the experiences they’ve had over two decades at Bramasole, their home in Cortona, Italy, this cookbook evokes days spent roaming the countryside for chestnuts, green almonds, blackberries, and porcini; dinner parties stretching into the wee hours, and garden baskets tumbling over with bright red tomatoes. Lose yourself in the transporting photography of the food, the people, and the place, as Frances’s lyrical introductions and headnotes put you by her side in the kitchen and raising a glass at the table. From Antipasti (starters) to Dolci (desserts), this cookbook is organized like a traditional Italian dinner. The more than 150 tempting recipes include: · Fried Zucchini Flowers · Red Peppers Melted with Balsamic Vinegar · Potato Ravioli with Zucchini, Speck, and Pecorino · Risotto Primavera · Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Sausage · Cannellini Bean Soup with Pancetta · Little Veal Meatballs with Artichokes and Cherry Tomatoes · Chicken Under a Brick · Short Ribs, Tuscan-Style · Domenica’s Rosemary Potatoes · Folded Fruit Tart with Mascarpone · Strawberry Semifreddo · Steamed Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Sauce Frances and Ed also share their tips on stocking your pantry, pairing wines with dishes, and choosing the best olive oil. Learn their time-tested methods for hand rolling pasta and techniques for coaxing the best out of seasonal ingredients with little effort. Throw on another handful of pasta, pull up a chair, and languish in the rustic Italian way of life.

Location: Street: 7812 Girard Ave City: La Jolla, Province: California Postal Code: 92037 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Frances Mayes discusses The Tuscan Sun Cookbook.

Food has always played a starring role in Frances’s writings, but never before has she shared a collection of the robust, honest recipes that she regularly enjoys with her husband, Ed, and their Italian friends. In her first-ever cookbook, The Tuscan Sun Cookbook, Frances and Ed welcome readers to Bramasole, their home in the countryside, introduce their friends, and share recipes that they have enjoyed as honorary Italians. Frances Mayes is the author of four books about Tuscany. The now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun–was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane. It was followed by Bella Tuscany and two illustrated books, In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home. She is also the author of the novel, Swan, six books of poetry, and The Discovery of Poetry. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. (jasbro)… (more)