Winter in Tuscany

What makes Winter is Tuscany so moving is the way it blurs the line between cooking and life, for quanto basta is not only a method for the kitchen, but a metaphor. It suggests that living well, is a matter of balance and instinct - of knowing when to give more, when to hold back, when to simply let things be… It is a book that lingers, like the memory of a good dinner on a long, dark night - an ode to the season, to Tuscany and the art of just enough. – Leigh O’Connor * Australian Good Food Guide *

Amber Guinness is an English cook and food writer who lives in Florence, Italy. She was born in London but raised at Arniano, the Tuscan farmhouse her parents restored near Siena. She has a first class Masters degree in History and Italian from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked as a cook in both London and Italy. Amber’s first book, A House Party in Tuscany, featured family recipes and stories from her internationally acclaimed residential painting school at Arniano. Her second book, Italian Coastal, was a culinary journey across the Tyrrhenian Sea, from Tuscany to Sicily. Winter in Tuscany is her third book. Amber is married with a son.