The Hills Of Tuscany: A new life in an old land

by Ferenc Máté

http://amazon.com/dp/0920256384

At was the late ’80s when Candace and Ferenc Máté abandoned New York for an ancient farmhouse in the hills of Tuscany. After a nomadic, picaresque life, Candace, a painter, and Ferenc, a writer, discovered heaven outside Montepulciano, Italy. Here at last was a place to set down roots. Knowing almost no Italian, and with only fours weeks to find their dream house, they begin the adventure of a lifetime. Ripe with the rich sensuality of Tuscany, Ference Máté’s lush, winsome memoir sweeps us along on their exhilarating, humbling, often hilarious journey…house hunting among ruins with a funghi-mad real estate agent…searching for succulent porcini and white truffles in the dense forest…escaping the brutal summer sun in their stonewalled farmhouse, barefoot on cool terracotta floors…sharing mouthwatering feasts, harvesting, grape picking, and wine making with a neighboring farmer. And not least, rediscovering each other and a new life in the enchanted precincts of Tuscany.