The Wisdom of Tuscany: Simplicity, Security, and the Good Life
The Wisdom of Tuscany: Simplicity, Security, and the Good Life
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The Wisdom of Tuscany: Simplicity, Security, and the Good Life
With our world so storm-tossed and rudderless, this might just be the book for our times. Sun-drenched Tuscany is synonymous with the ideal life. But it didn’t happen by chance. Since the Etruscans, the Tuscans have treated their breathtaking countryside with sagacious respect and, in hamlets and hill towns, have built a culture of simplicity, beauty, neighborliness, good food, and a love of daily life.
Ferenc Máté, a Tuscan resident for twenty years, explores this idyllic existence. He finds Tuscans brimming with creative practicality, down-home humor, and relentless optimism. Blended with their passion for work and independence, they have achieved a haven of economic stability, physical and emotional security, and a fortifying sense of belonging.
From their organic gardens to their mouthwatering cuisine, from high-quality, craftsmen-made products and family-run businesses to the joys centered in human contact, Tuscans live a healthy, emotionally rich life. Máté—engaging, funny, and insightful—shows us how to live like Tuscans.
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A Reasonable Life revisited,
Ferenc Mate is no armchair dilettante tossing pearls of wisdom from the comfy fireside of his Tuscan Villa. This guy has walked the talk. He’s lived in at least 6 countries, built houseboats, cabins and knocked around 40 countries before settling in Tuscany twenty years ago where he restored a 13th century friary and built a world class winery. No trust fund baby, he started life as a war refugee and made his way with wit and hard work.
A few years back he wrote an excellent book called A Reasonable Life which was a call to action for a return to a more human existence.
This isn’t so much another dreamy Tuscan memoir as it is a call for a revolution. Not a rebellion in the political sense but a call for a change in the way we live which is killing us and robbing us of the simple joy of living.
Rampant consumerism, bad food, over amped lifestyle, driving to the poorhouse in our new cars, all stuff we’ve heard before but never has it had such relevancy as we deal with our current econmic crisis. Like swallowing a bitter pill with a spoonful of honey, The Wisdom of Tuscany is a window on a dream which isn’t so much about place as it is about how we go about the business of living. Ferenc Mate points the way.
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|An Old World prospective,
Once my wife gifted me this book on Christmas Eve, I couldn’t put it down. Ferenc spoke volumes of my inner Italian dream of living life simpler and with more purpose. Our innate human drive is to make the most with less and Ferenc has reiterated this concept numerously in various forms of Old World traditions, most nobly through the culinary richness of Tuscany. Who knew? We all do but just need reminded on a regular basis. Ference is a messenger with la storia. I plan to pass this book on to old friends and new acquaintances. I highly, highly recommend this book.
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