A Taste of Tuscany by Leslie Forbes - 1985 Edition First American Printing green and pink This splint oak style basket

This splint oak style basket

demanding its share of gratitude and recognition

a springtime easter egg

It also serves as a small mixing bowl and a storage container

257 pages including an index of common names and an index of local names

A Taste of Tuscany by Leslie Forbes - 1985 Edition First American Printing green and pink This splint oak style basketIt started as a series of drawings and cooking notes on a trip to Tuscany five years ago. For me Tuscany was and still is, an irresistible combination of practical little family run restaurants casually serving up Italian sausages and beans next to grand Renaissance churches, of colorful food markets sprawling uninhibitedly across cobbled medieval piazzas, and especially of people, some raucous and crafty, some gentile and reserved, all of them