Imagine spending a carefree summer in the Italian sun, beachcombing, eating and drinking with abandon, drifting without restraint from island to island, from port to port.
Summer in the Islands is the record of Matthew Fort doing just that in his third Italian voyage on a Vespa - first down the length of Italy in Eating Up Italy, then around Sicily in Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons, and now hopping between the Aeolian Islands, something he hadn't done since his early 20s.
Traveling by Vespa and by ferry, Fort tours the islands at his leisure. He takes us to Elba, where Napoleon was once imprisoned; to Salina, famous for its capers, just as Pantelleria is famous for its dessert wine; to Pianosa, where dangerous Mafia bosses were kept and which Joseph Heller used as the setting for Catch-22; to Capri, where Maxim Gorky ran a school for revolutionaries which was visited by Lenin and Stalin...
...to all of Italy's 52 islands which he has never written about before.
With 30 years of experience as a food critic, travel writer and adventurer, Fort is an excellent guide through the culinary and cultural history he encounters during his summer in the islands.
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Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
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Höhe: 222 mm
Breite: 141 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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978-1-78352-332-0 (9781783523320)
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Matthew Fort's writing career began in 1986 when he started a column about food in the Financial Times Saturday Review. Between 1989 and 2006 he was Food & Drink Editor of the Guardian. He was named Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year and Restaurateurs' Writer of the Year in 1991, Glenfiddich Restaurant Writer of the Year in 1992, and Glenfiddich Cookery Writer of the Year in 2005.
In 1998 he published his first book, Rhubarb & Black Pudding. His second book, Eating Up Italy, was the Guild of Food Writers' Book of the Year in 2005, and his third book, Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons, won the Premio Sicilia Madre Mediterranea in 2009.
Recent television series include Greatest Dishes in the World and The Forager's Field Guide. He is currently a judge on The Great British Menu.
