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Sweet Myrtle and Bitter Honey: The Mediterranean Flavors of Sardinia
Sardinia now rivals its northern neighbor Provence as a vacation destination. The coastline lures visitors, but it is the food that will make you linger. Chef Efisio Farris is poised to become the next great ambassador of Italian regional cuisine. To promote the cooking of his native Sardinia, he has appeared on the Food Network, given demonstrations at food festivals across the country, and even launched his own company that imports Sardinian specialties for his restaurants and for retail. It is Mediterranean cooking at its purest, making liberal use of olive oil, fish, and fresh vegetables. But it’s also distinguished by indigenous ingredients that are becoming hot trends in America: pecorino, flatbread, fava beans, fregula, and bottarga. Farris has pulled together more than one hundred recipes–many of them family secrets. Among them are Watermelon Salad with Arugula and Ricotta Salata; Pannacotta with Bitter Honey; and Bruschetta with Sausage and Pecorino Sardo. More than 150 breathtaking images take you on a tour of the countryside–from the terraced olive groves to the riverbanks full of wild asparagus. In sidebars, the author relates charming anecdotes and Sardinian history. Readers will come away not just with a taste for the island’s flavors but also a sense of Sardinia’s magical beauty and culture..
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Sardinia (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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Sardinia (Regional Guide)
Fiercely independent but unquestionably Italian, secluded Sardinia is at last revealing its secrets to the rest of the world. The unspoilt, idyllic beaches and jewel-coloured waters are offset by rugged mountains and lush valleys, the mysterious nuraghe towers by charming seaside towns. The island’s culture is fascinating, the festivals delightful, the food mouth-watering…so jump in! Read Up – detailed history, culture and arts chapters put Sardinia’s unique heritage in context Dine Out – extensive reviews track down unassuming local haunts and exclusive Sardinian institutions Sleep In Style – the best places to stay from medieval Alghero to the bustling port city of Cagliari Get Active – the pick of the island’s spectacular dive sites, mountain hikes in the Gennargentu, cycling routes and horse riding .
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Sardinia, 4th (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan)
Sardinia has long been a favorite of the Italians; discover why with Cadogan’s insightful and fascinating guide. Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, the Italian travel experts, uncover the hidden sights of the elegant capital of Cagliari and explore the wild beaches and pure turquoise sea of the coast of the Nurra. They ponder the quiet simplicity of Oristano, which explodes into life for a two-day festival every year, and study the beautiful political murals adorning the streets of Orgosolo. Evocative descriptions of the rocky granite mountains of the Gennargentu National Park and the luxury of the Costa Smeralda, playground of the titled and wealthy, will transport you to the island before you have even arrived. A detailed chapter on Sardinian culture includes a section on the island’s most enduring mysteries: the nuraghe, ancient towers dotted throughout the landscape. Illustrations of the different types of nuraghe allow you to identify them and understand the differences between them. As always, the very best places to try out Sardinian cuisine are listed, alongside hand-picked hotels, villas, bars and shops. .
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Sardinia (ancient history and emerald sea)
This stunning portfolio of aerial photographs showcases the characteristics that make Sardinia unique. Hundreds of colorful images explore Sardinia’s incomparable natural beauty, from the enormous granite boulders at Capo Testa to the pink sands of Spiaggia Rosa in Budelli, from the craggy cliffs and caves dotting the coastline, to the 23 islands of The Archipelago of La Maddalena. Readers are transported to the resorts and emerald green seas of Costa Smeralda and to the imposing Aragonese Tower in the fishing village of Santa Teresa di Gallura. Archaeological sites, miles of beaches, and quaint towns come to life in these superb aerial pictures..
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Reeds in the Wind
The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt and retribution This novel presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed many years before. Around, below, and inside them the raging Mediterranean storms, the jagged mountains, the murmuring forests, and the gushing springs form a Greek chorus of witness to the tragic drama of this unforgiving land. Deledda tells her story with her characteristic love of the natural landscape and fascination with the folk culture of the island, with details about the famous religious festivals held in mountain encampments and the lore of the "dark beings who populate the Sardinian night, the fairies who live in rocks and caves, and the sprites with seven red caps who bother sleep." Introduction by the Sardinian ethnographer, Dolores Turchi..
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Eyewitness to Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, In the year 1812. Written in 1825 by General, Count Philip De Segur. To the Veterans of the Grand Army COMRADES, I have undertaken the task of tracing the History of the Grand Army and its Leader during the year 1812. I address it to such of you as the ices of the North have disarmed, and who can no longer serve their country, but by the recollections of their misfortunes and their glory. Stopped short in your noble career, your existence is much more in the past than in the present; but when the recollections are so great, it is allowable to live solely on them. I am not afraid, therefore, of troubling that repose which you have so dearly purchased, by placing before you the most fatal of your deeds of arms. Who is there of us but knows, that from the depth of his obscurity the looks of the fallen man are involuntarily directed towards the splendor of his past existence--even when its light illuminates the shoal on which the bark of his fortune struck, and when it displays the fragments of the greatest of shipwrecks? .
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Sardinian Chronicles (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
In Sardinian Chronicles Bernard Lortat-Jacob poetically evokes Sardinian music through a series of encounters with individual musicians and their families. Refusing to separate the music from the world in which it arises, Lortat-Jacob offers twelve vignettes focused on individuals such as Cocco, a chicken farmer who deciphers the shapes of his fowl and the layout of his henhouses in the constellations of a summer sky, and Pietro, a sleep-walking postman who divides his time between mail deliveries and impromptu serenades. These vignettes bring to life an art still very much alive: the music of villages with an oral tradition, sung or played in the company of others.
Through his sensitive portraits of music makers and their families, Lortat-Jacob overcomes some of the epistemological and methodological dilemmas facing his field today, while also giving the general reader a sense of the multiple and idiosyncratic ways that music is involved in everyday life. With a foreword by Michel Leiris and a compact disc containing samples of the music being discussed, this book constitutes a breakthrough in ethnomusicology that will also interest many in Mediterranean studies and European anthropology. .
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