Barolo
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-2674-6 (ISBN)
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After a childhood of microwaved meat and saturated fat, Matthew Gavin Frank got serious about food. His “research” ultimately led him to Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), where, living out of a tent in the garden of a local farmhouse, he resolved to learn about Italian food from the ground up. Barolo is Frank’s account of those six months. At once an intimate travelogue and a memoir of a culinary education, the book details the adventures of a not-so-innocent abroad in Barolo, a region known for its food and wine (also called Barolo). Upon arrival, Frank began picking wine grapes for famed vintner Luciano Sandrone. He tells how, between lessons in the art of the grape harvest, he discovered, explored, and savored the gustatory riches of Piemontese Italy. Along the way we meet the region’s families and the many eccentric vintners, butchers, bakers, and restaurateurs who call Barolo home. Rich with details of real Italian small-town life, local foodstuffs, strange markets, and a circuslike atmosphere, Frank’s story also offers a wealth of historical and culinary information, moments of flamboyance, and musings on foreign travel (and its many alien seductions), all filtered through food and wine.
Matthew Gavin Frank worked for over fifteen years in the food and restaurant industry in positions ranging from dishwasher to sous-chef, server to sommelier, menu consultant to catering-business owner, farmhand to janitor. An assistant professor of creative writing at Northern Michigan University, he has published essays in Gastronomica, Creative Nonfiction, and Best Food Writing 2006 and is the author of Pot Farm (Nebraska, 2012).
Acknowledgments
1. The Fewest Idiots
2. Dialing for Raffaella
3. The Boy Brings Me
4. Enough
5. Four Sips
6. All You Have to Do is Say, “Si”
7. Grape-Shaped Ball of Light
8. Between the Bell Beats
9. Red-Beard’s Silent Deal
10. Dixieland Basement
11. Pruning
12. Follow the Steeple
13. Limbo on the Landscape
14. Slow
15. Halves
16. Luca Sandrone Enters Shakedown Street
17. Chandelier, Carpet, Mariuccia
18. Orange
19. The Bleary Music of Wineshop Franco
20. Breadstick Hydra
21. Raw Meat and Barry White
22. When She Draws It, She Draws It
23. The Unfinished
24. Trust the Pear
25. Italian Butcher Shop Blues
26. Instructions of Ercole
27. Laundry
28. The Other Side of Tonight
29. Billboards, Booths, and Cameras
30. Valentina and the First Taste
31. Six Barolos, Four Figs
32. From Barolo to Vinegar
33. The Truffle of the Barn
34. Sleeptasting
35. One More Song
36. Heroes and Villains Commune Over Ceci
37. Nightpicking
38. La Partenza della Filovia
39. The Dateless Label
40. Something Small to Tide Me Over
41. Late
42. He Was Right
Reihe/Serie | At Table |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 illustrations |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8032-2674-8 / 0803226748 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-2674-6 / 9780803226746 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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