As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey
10 best books like As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey (Alan Epstein): Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy, The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria, Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, An Italian Education, Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria, Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide, The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian, Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home, The Glorious Adventure, A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria
Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy
| Author | Sergio Esposito |
| ISBN | 0767926072 |
As I was re-shelving some new nonfiction books a few weeks ago, an Italian villa on the cover of Sergio Esposito’s Passion on the Vine caught my eye. After perusing the description on the inside flap, I checked out the book and spent the next several days traveling all over Italy with the author--a native...
The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
| Author | Marlena de Blasi |
| ISBN | 1565124731 |
With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither an edge to a sea nor a face to a foreign land,...
| Author | Michael Tucker |
| ISBN | 0871139626 |
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto...
| Author | Tim Parks |
| ISBN | 0380727609 |
Tim Parks' first bestseller, "Italian Neighbors," chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a small village near Verona. With the splendid...
| Author | Mark Rotella |
| ISBN | 0865476969 |
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy
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a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria...
| Author | Dario Castagno |
| ISBN | 0762736704 |
Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping...
| Author | Phil Doran |
| ISBN | 1592401899 |
After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned- out, and exhausted. After...
| Author | Caitlin Shetterly |
| ISBN | 1401341462 |
Newlywed Caitlin Shetterly and her husband, Dan Davis, two hardworking freelancers, began their lives together in 2008 by pursuing a lifelong, shared dream of leaving Maine and going West. At first, California was the land of plenty. Quickly, though, the recession landed, and a surprise pregnancy...
| Author | Richard Halliburton |
| ISBN | 1590480848 |
Richard Halliburton was quite the character. I've read some of his letters to his parents in the Princeton University Archives regarding his travels to Greece to research this book, and so I have an idea of when his narrative departs from the truth. That it occasionally does, but most of his adventures...
| Author | Annie Hawes |
| ISBN | 0330457225 |
An hilarious and thought-provoking new travel book from the bestselling author of Extra Virgin.
Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy...
Why Italians Love to Talk About Food
| Author | Yelena Kostyukovich |
| ISBN | 0374289948 |
Italians love to talk about food. The aroma of a simmering ragú, the bouquet of a local wine, the remembrance of a past meal: Italians discuss these details as naturally as we talk about politics or sports, and often with the same flared tempers. In Why Italians Love to Talk About Food, Elena Kostioukovitch...
The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily
| Author | Theresa Maggio |
| ISBN | 0738208000 |
In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparents' ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her adventure, selecting as her targets the smallest...
Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany
| Author | Isabella Dusi |
| ISBN | 0743404114 |
Isabella Dusi, a native Australian, settled in Montalcino, a beautiful mountain eyrie famous for its wine and the proud nature of its inhabitants. Her acceptance into this close-knit community was a hard-won thing and has inspired Isabella to capture the true spirit of Montalcino. Vanilla Beans...
The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals
| Author | Luigi Barzini |
| ISBN | 0684825007 |
In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is startlingly frank as he examines "the two Italies":...
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
| Author | Dianne Hales |
| ISBN | 0767927699 |
“Italians say that someone who acquires a new language ‘possesses’ it. In my case, Italian possesses me. With Italian racing like blood through my veins, I do indeed see with different eyes, hear with different ears, and drink in the world with all my senses…”
A celebration...
Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
| Author | Michael Rips |
| ISBN | 0316748641 |
This book is a quick read, only 200 pages but full of amusing anecdotes and Italian eccentrics, an interesting mix of historical fact and myth, as well as the author's reflections on life in a small hilltop town called Sutri.
Sutri is in the Tuscia, where I live, so the book was of particular interest....
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 0864426054 |
In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps. They were the first foreigners to live in the region. "A Small Place in Italy" describes how the house was restored with the help of their neighbors,...
Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
| Author | Beppe Severgnini |
| ISBN | 0767912365 |
In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest — one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C.
When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they...
A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream
| Author | Ferenc Máté |
| ISBN | 0920256562 |
Finding your dream house with a vineyard in Tuscany is like searching the woods for porcini mushrooms: a labor of love. Such feats require patience, discernment, resolve, and an indestructible sense of humor.
The Mátés’ future home and wine estate lies amid breathtaking scenery in a...
Along the Edge of America
| Author | Peter Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0395877377 |
The best-selling author and walker Peter Jenkins, landlubber par excellence, now takes to the waves and explores, as only he can, a part of America rich in history, mystery, and lore: from the Florida Keys to the Mexican border, by way of the Everglades, the treacherous "jungle woods," genteel southern...
Seven Seasons in Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People
| Author | Robert Rodi |
| ISBN | 0345521056 |
Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular...
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0374184038 |
Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and...
