Barolo

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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.  Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1.  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                        ...

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Gavin Frank
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780803240063
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4006-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: At Table; At Table
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales