Thirty years ago, Frances Mayes abandoned her life as a university professor and poet in San Francisco and blew her savings on a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the rolling hills of Cortona, Tuscany ...

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 ...

This is the first stop in CBS News Sunday Morning's month-long look at the Middle Ages - our middle ages, that is. It's a time of life for exploring and maybe taking some new paths. We begin our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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” ...