{"product_id":"9780865476967","title":"Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ea rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Rotella's \u003ci\u003eStolen Figs \u003cb\u003e-- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003enamed a Best Travel Book of 2003 by\u003ci\u003e Condé Nast Traveler \u003cb\u003e-- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a marvelous evocation of Calabria. A grandson of Calabrese 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. As they travel around the region, Giuseppe initiates Rotella \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand the reader \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003einto its secrets: how to make a soppressata and 'nduja, and, of course, how to steal a fig without committing a crime. \u003ci\u003eStolen Figs\u003c\/i\u003e is a model travelogue \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eat once charming and wise, and full of an earthy and unpretentious sense of life that now, as ever, characterizes Calabria and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50078785143024,"sku":"9780865476967","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865476967_p0.jpg?v=1784732471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865476967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}