Romancing the Vine: Life, Love, and Transformation in the Vineyards of Barolo

Book overview Description Editorial Reviews Alan Tardi former owner of Follonico in New York describes his life in the Piedmonte district of Italy focusing on the cultivation and harvest of the region's celebrated Barolo wine and including rare local recipes Read more From Publishers Weekly In 2002 Tardi closed his New York City restaurant Follonico and slowly emigrated to a new life in Castiglione Falletto a village in Italy's famous Barolo wine region of Piedmont He was drawn away from a post–September 11 New York where he still spends part of the year by the love of a beautiful woman Ivana; the reassuring natural rhythms of wine making and the casual culinary splendor of local cooking which he recounts in 25 recipes featuring regional and personal specialties like Renza's Chicken Frog-Style and Grape Must Conserve Tardi spends much of his time working Ivana's family vineyard back to life with her brother Fabrizio relating his experience tending vineyards and giving folkloric accounts of Barolo's vinicultural history.