The Tuscan Year Discworld and in the chair

and in the chair

This book is a love letter" - Dolly Alderton Glittering with wit

from meetings with the likes of Mussolini to forming lasting bonds with European royalty

formulated a manifesto for English literature

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The Tuscan Year Discworld and in the chairIn 1972 Elizabeth Romer moved to a farmhouse in Tuscany, where she discovered a life moulded by the past and tasted the simple, sublime flavours of traditional Italian cooking for the first time. Here, she introduces the Cerotti family who farm one section of the valley, and vividly describes, month by month, the Tuscan year. From January's prosciutto and salame, to cheese making in March, to threshing the corn in high summer, to the game and