Set in the author's "one-mile-square" hometown of Fitzgerald in the backwoods of Georgia, Mayes's (Every Day in Tuscany) latest memoir depicts a childhood of rich ...

Under the Tuscan Sun started out as a memoir. Written by Frances Mayes and published in 1996, the book of the same name documented the author’s journey of renovating an abandoned Tuscan villa with her ...

The Park Hotel ai Cappuccini is one of the hotels where Tauck guests will stay on the A Week In ...Tuscany and Umbria itinerary. Photo Credit: Tauck Tauck will have author Frances Mayes as a special ...

Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta gears up for its annual book festival. This week Book Notes gives shoutouts to two renowned Georgia authors who share a publication day for two very different ...

I came across Frances Mayes’ “Bella Tuscany” this spring and read just a few lines to remember how beguiled I was by her first memoir on the subject. I have heard Mayes’ prose dismissed as something ...

“Pasta’s cardinal virtue? Speed!” writes Frances Mayes in her newest book, Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun. “Many tasty dinners can be prepared in the time it takes ...

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Frances Mayes was catapulted to fame when her book, “Under the Tuscan Sun,” landed on bookstore shelves two decades ago. Now she has a new cookbook out — “Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from ...

Even people who don't normally read travel books are aware of the old Italian villa that Mayes and her husband restored, chronicled in Mayes's bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun and three other books ...

Popular author Frances Mayes has just penned a new cookbook that offers up some of Italy’s tastiest and speediest pasta recipes — “Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun” ...

Nothing shines light on the darkest corners of human existence like icy British irony. A man makes soup for his wife’s dinner. He cuts himself and bleeds profusely. She comes home, hates him. He’s an ...