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Bella figura : how to live, love, and eat the Italian way / Kamin Mohammadi.

Mohammadi, Kamin, (author.).

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"One woman's story of finding beauty, and herself--and a practical guide to living a better life, the Italian way! Kamin Mohammadi, a magazine editor in London, should have been on top of the world. But after heartbreak and loneliness, the stress of her"dream life" was ruining her physical and mental health. Gifted a ticket to freedom--a redundancy package and the offer of a friend's apartment in Florence--Kamin took a giant leap. It did not take her long to notice how differently her new Italian neighbors approached life: enjoying themselves, taking their time to eat and drink, taking their lives at a deliberately slower pace. Filled with wonderful characters--from the local bartender/barista who becomes her love adviser, to the plumbers who fix her heating and teach her to make pasta al pomodoro--here is a mantra for savoring the beauty and color of every day that Italians have followed for generations, a guide to the slow life for busy people, a story of finding love (and self-love) in unlikely places, and an evocative account of a year living an Italian life". --Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780385354011
  • ISBN: 0385354010
  • Physical Description: x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

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Formatted Contents Note:
January 2008: Festina lente, or, How to slow down -- February: La dolce vita, or, How to taste the sweetness of life -- March: La Festa delle Donne, or, How to celebrate being a woman -- April: Fare l'amore, or, How to take a lover -- May: Mangia, mangia, or, How to eat and not put on weight -- June: Perduta, or, How to lose your head -- July: Piacere a te stessa, or, How to take pleasure in yourself -- August: Femminilità, or, How style has nothing to do with money -- September: Stare in forma, or, How to never need a gym again -- October: Sprezzatura, or, The power of studied nonchalance -- November: Amore, or, How to find true love -- December: Stare insieme, or, How to be together.

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Mohammadi, Kamin > Travel > Italy.
Mohammadi, Kamin > Friends and associates.
Gastronomy > Italy.
Travel writers > England > Biography.
Cooking, Italian.
Italy > Description and travel.
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Cookbooks.
Autobiographies.

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