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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
- Priorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
- Central America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
- Dare
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020