Palmento
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Palmento

A Sicilian Wine Odyssey

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Palmento

A Sicilian Wine Odyssey

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About This Book

Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily's emerging wine scene. What he discovered during more than a year of traveling the region, however, was far more than a fascinating wine frontier.
Chronicling his journey through Palermo to Marsala, and across the rugged interior of Sicily to the heights of Mount Etna, Camuto captures the personalities and flavors andthe traditions and natural riches that have made Italy's largest and oldest wine region the world traveler's newest discovery. In the island's vastly different wines he finds an expression of humanity and nature—andthe space where the two merge into something more. Here, amid the wild landscapes, lavish markets, dramatic religious rituals, deliciously contrasting flavors, and astonishing natural warmth of its people, Camuto portrays Sicily at a shining moment in history. He takes readers into the anti-Mafia movement growing in the former mob vineyards around infamous Corleone; tells the stories of some of the island's most prominent landowning families; and introduces us to film and music celebrities and other foreigners drawn to Sicily's vineyards. His book takes wine as a powerful metaphor for the independent identity of this mythic land, which has thrown off its legacies of violence, corruption, and poverty to emerge, finally free, with its great soul intact. Watch the Palmento book trailer on YouTube.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780803267978
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Culinary Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Sicily’s Moment
  9. Winter
  10. 1: Benvenuti in Sicilia
  11. 2: Romancing the Amphorae
  12. 3: Stranieri
  13. Spring
  14. 4: Planet Planeta
  15. 5: What Drives Marco
  16. 6: Palermo Holy Week
  17. Summer
  18. 7: Where Have the Leopards Gone?
  19. 8: Return to Corleone
  20. 9: Due Donne
  21. 10: The Jet Set
  22. Fall
  23. 11: Child of the Wind
  24. 12: A Bridge Too Close
  25. 13: Palmento
  26. A New Year
  27. 14: New Wine
  28. I Vini: Addresses of Featured Winemakers