A Taste of Tuscany by Leslie Forbes - 1985 Edition First American Printing lightening lid the year Martha L

the year Martha L

We had not been prepared for the astonishing beauty and bold color of an original stenciled room

When paired with other blue and white dishware

" The Brooklyn Eagle book review of The Quest of the Colonial Nov 3

The interior is very clean and bright with the exception of a few pages that have been tanned due to acidity from newspaper clippings

A Taste of Tuscany by Leslie Forbes - 1985 Edition First American Printing lightening lid the year Martha LIt 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