{"product_id":"stolen-figs-and-other-adventures-in-calabria-9780865476271","title":"Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn effortlessly artful blend of travel book  memoir  and affectionate portrait of a people  Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italya rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during the scorching summers while the sea crashes against the cliffs on both coasts. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian American culture; in North America  more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy.  Mark Rotellas Stolen Figs is a marvelous evocation of Calabria and Calabrians  whose way of life is largely untouched by the commerce that has made Tuscany and Umbria into international tourist redoubts. A grandson of Calabrian immigrants  Rotella persuades his father to visit the region for the first time in thirty years; once there  he meets Giuseppe  a postcard photographer who becomes his guide to all things Calabrian. As they travel around the region  Giuseppe initiates Rotellaand the readerinto its secrets: how to make soppressata and nduja  where to find hidden chapels and grottoes  and  of course  how to steal a fig without actually committing a crime. Stolen Figs is a model travelogueat once charming and wise  and full of the earthy and unpretentious sense of life that  now as ever  characterizes Calabria and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652217069621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0865476276","price":56.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780865476271.jpg?v=1781850002","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/stolen-figs-and-other-adventures-in-calabria-9780865476271","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}