Title: This is Italy?
Product review: I slogged through this book hoping I could learn something about a part of Italy that I have only passed through. Instead I was subjected to the mid-life crisis of a pampered, spoiled woman for whom everything must be JUST SO. She doesn't experience Italy, she engineers "experiences" of "Italy". I rolled my eyes at her dismay in having to take her wedding guests to a downscale, unatmospheric, but tasty pizzeria when all the others were closed. Hey, if the pizza's good, who cares? One summer in Naples (my fave) and her fairy tale image of Italy would crumble like a rock slide on the Tange. (Might have to try her hazelnut gelato recipe, though...) Paolo Tullio's "North of Naples, South of Rome" isn't about Tuscany, but it's a more insightful and realistic introduction to rural Italy.
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