{"title":"Marlena de Blasi","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-thousand-days-in-venice-an-unexpected-romance-paperback","title":"A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two grown sons good-bye, and moved to Venice to marry \"the stranger,\" as she calls Fernando. \u003cbr\u003e This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't even know she was missing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433880617183,"sku":"9781616202811","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Zu_s2tIbtx9781616202811.webp?v=1790020562"},{"product_id":"the-lady-in-the-palazzo-an-umbrian-love-story-paperback","title":"The Lady in the Palazzo: An Umbrian Love Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books \"A Thousand Days in Venice\" and \"A Thousand Days in Tuscany.\" Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she and her husband search for a home in this city on a hill finding one that turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo. Along the way, de Blasi befriends an array of colorful characters, including cooks and counts and shepherds and a lone violinist, cooking her way into the hearts of her Umbrian neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrvieto, an ancient Italian city rising above the cliffs of Umbria, is among the most dramatic in Europe. It is here that Marlena de Blasi, author of the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Days in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, sets out to make a home--in the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo--and win over her neighbors, who include artisans, counts, shepherds, and a lone violinist. Though wary of a stranger in their midst, they find her passion for the fine arts of cooking and eating irresistible, and together they create a spectacular feast as breathtaking as the city itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, \u003ci\u003eThe Lady in the Palazzo\u003c\/i\u003e seductively captures the essence of a singular place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433891234015,"sku":"9781565126107","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Xi9tvFhMns9781565126107.webp?v=1790020617"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/marlena-de-blasi.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}