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Ferenc MátéTuscany Memoirs
Ferenc Máté
Hills: Paperback, 248 pages; 2010 (1998)
Vineyard: Paperback, 273 pages; 2008
Wisdom: Paperback, 272 pages; 2009
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Ferenc Máté, born in Hungary, led a nomadic existence until he and his wife, a painter, impulsively decided to abandon their New York abode to settle down on a farm in Tuscany (even though they barely knew Italian). Filled with humility and humor, The Hills of Tuscany is Máté's warm, engaging memoir of the couple's early years in Italy: scouring the Tuscan countryside for a perfect house, learning to tend a garden, becoming fast friends with neighbors, and, of course, indulging in mouthwatering feasts. The follow-up book, A Vineyard in Tuscany, hilariously recounts the charming couple's adventure turning their home into a worldclass winery. In The Wisdom of Tuscany, Máté imparts the life lessons he's gratefully gleaned from twenty years living in the Tuscan countryside. Anyone who's ever dreamed of escaping the rat race in favor of "simplicity, security, and the good life"--and all lovers of Italian food and culture--will savor these delicious reads.
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