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This is the beautifully illustrated chronicle of Simeti's twentieth-century travels, first in books, then on the road, as she searches the landscapes and the.
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Mary Taylor Simeti
American author
Mary Taylor Simeti is an American author specializing in Sicilian cuisine and its history.[1] She is a former regular contributor to the New York Times and to the Financial Times.
Biography
Mary Taylor Simeti was born in 1941 in New York City. She is the daughter of Francis Henry Taylor, then director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1962 she graduated from Radcliffe College with a major in history.
An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customs—both rural and urban—from the perspectives of.She travelled to Sicily to work with social activist Danilo Dolci. In Sicily she met her future husband, Antonio Simeti, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Palermo. Together they restored the Simetis' farm near Alcamo where they produce organic olive oil and wine.[2]
Books
- “On Persephone’s Island.
A Sicilian Journal“, Alfred Knopf, 1986, ISBN 978-0670809202.
- “Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food“, Alfred Knopf, 1989, ISBN 978-0394568508. British edition: