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My Private Wanderlust
By Don George, Editor
Ibiza: A Navel Voyage
Simon Winchester
Postmark: New York
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WITHIN TUSCANY

BY MATTHEW SPENDER | needing a reprieve from city life, novelist Matthew Spender leaves London for the Tuscan countryside. In this descriptive account of his 20 years in different towns across Tuscany, he stacks vignette upon vignette. From the birth of his daughter -- with a chain-smoking midwife who continues to take drags during the delivery -- to a hike up a mountain in search of a local man who makes bee hives, Spender never loses the reader as he jumps from one moment to the next. This is a good overview of what life is like in Tuscany: how the sun sets, how the vegetables grow, how the landscape and the people are so interconnected.

THE TUSCAN YEAR

BY ELIZABETH ROMER | in sumptuous detail, writer Elizabeth Romer takes you to the heart of Tuscany -- through its towns, past the pastures and straight into the kitchen. Month by month, she chronicles life in rural Tuscany based on the type of food one family eats, journeying from the slaughter of animals in winter to the harvesting of corn in summer. She gives you the bare essences of Tuscany, so real that you can almost taste and smell the motadella, parsley and garlic stuffed in the fiori di zucchini ripieni, and the savory blend of prosciutto and cantaloupe when eaten together.

FROM THE TABLES OF TUSCAN WOMEN