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Book:Name: Helena Attlee - The Land Where Lemons Grow- The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.75 MB
Description:Title: The Land Where Lemons Grow
Author: Helena Attlee
Language: English
Year: 2015
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241952573
Total pages: 272 str.
Download from RapidGatorTravellers have always been thrilled by the sight of citrus in Italy, where dark leaves and bright fruit seem to charge the landscape, making the trees symbols of a sun-soaked, poetic vision of the country. Citrus also holds a special place in the Italian imagination, and in The Land Where Lemons Grow, Helena Attlee sets out to explore its curious past and its enduring resonance in Italian culture.
Building on a life of travel and work in Italy, she undertakes a journey encompassing the sticky streets of Ivrea during the Battle of Oranges, the comfortable gardens of Tuscany's villas and a magic triangle of land in Sicily, where the best blood oranges in the world grow in the shadow of a volcano.
She maps the citron's long migration from the foothills of the Himalayas to the shores of southern Italy, traces the bitter juice of Seville oranges through ancient Roman and Renaissance cookery books, exposes early manifestations of the Mafia during...
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