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Under the Tuscan Sun was #1 on the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list, and understandably so. In this beautiful memoir, Frances Mayes, the author, portrays her enriched life-experiences while buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned stone villa in Tuscany. Readers are treated to her lyrical descriptions of the sunlit colors of her expansive valley landscapes. One senses the energy of her labor as she tends the olives and grapes in her gardens. We, with her, savor the joy of the countryside, fresh food, cut flowers and village life.
For those of us, struck with the simplicity and beauty of the Tuscany life described by Frances Mayes, La Cucina Mia offers travelers an opportunity for their own Tuscan experience. La Cucina Mia features culinary tours that combine travel and cooking for a truly unique Italian experience. Destinations include stops from Elba Island with its rugged coastline outlined by sandy beaches touching sapphire blue waters of the Mediterranean to Siena, an ancient city in the center Tuscany that is home The Enoteca Italinao, The National Library of Wine, housing over 1,000 labels in its collection.
Tours are hosted by Georgia Kent and Linda Hampsten whose friendship has taken them from a catering business in Boulder Colorado to this exciting culinary experience in romantic Italy. Ms. Kent who lives on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband and two daughters, while Ms. Hampsten lives on a farm above the Tuscan coast with her husband and daughter, states that the cooking tours La Cucina Mia offers differ from most in that participants are able to experience various villas and chefs during the course of five, seven, and nine day tours while enjoying magnificent sight-seeing at a number of locations.
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