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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Get Layers Longer More Place You

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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Away Because Eat Every Every Single Night Husband Insist Myself Neighbours Night See Single Single Night Them Unhealthy Will Yourself

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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Just Magic Me Most Place Still Venice World

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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Admire Amazing Because Book Kind People Travel Will

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I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Countries Cuisine Culture Everything Find History Italy Just Landscape Me Only Other Other Countries People Together

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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Car Carrots Connected Everybody Going Got Growing Italy Land Plot Size Still Tiny Tomatoes Yard You

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The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Day-To-Day Driven Enjoy Enjoyment Everyday Future Goal Italians Off Priorities Put Really Right Some Work

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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: America Central Central America Could Country Each Every Fantasies Fell Had Hard Live Lived London Loved Mexico Paris Place Rome Traveled Venice

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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Big Bushes Cook Did Different Different Way Europe Eyes First First Thing Food Going Got Ground Healthy Italy Little Opened Plants Put The First Thing Them Thing Turn Watch Way

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What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: About Also Cooks Impressed Innovative Italians Me Most People Sat Tables Traditional Whose Wild

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: April 4th, 1940

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