![]() “Under the Tuscan Sun” and its sequels, “ Bella Tuscany”(Broadway, 2000) and “ Every Day in Tuscany” (Broadway, 2010) made her - and her adopted home town of Cortona - famous the world over. Mayes first wrote about falling in love with Tuscany in her memoir, which recounts her renovation of a centuries-old villa. Cooking in Italy, watching the whole voluptuousness and richness of the food that comes out of the ground there, was so eye-opening.” ![]() When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes. “Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. “But it was all southern food.” In the 1970s, she traveled to the south of France and took cooking classes with Simone Beck, co-author with Julia Child of “ Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” ![]() “I grew up in a house where food was really important,” says Mayes, who was raised in Georgia. ![]()
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