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Title: she's no Frances Mayes...
Review: I guess this book would be fine if you know absolutely nothing a about Italy in general or Tuscany in particular. Being of Italian descent and having recently traveled to Italy, it just didn't tell me much that I didn't already know.The thing that turned me off to this book is the author's very annoying habit of providing help with pronunciation of every Italian word or name within the text , e.g., San Gimignano (Sahn-Jim-in-YAN-o), and provides this dubious "help" for the same words - repeatedly (Re-PEET-ed-ly), sometimes several times on the same page (grrrrr!) What ever happened to footnotes? It seemed very condescending to me, and also to someone I loaned the book to.
