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Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in by Sergio Esposito

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By Sergio Esposito

As a tender baby in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen desk watching the day-by-day ritual of his huge, loud family members bonding over clean neighborhood dishes and easy state wines. whereas devouring the wealthy bufala mozzarella, nonetheless sopping with milk and salt, and the platters of clean prosciutto, sliced so skinny he may see via it, he absorbed the profound courting of nutrition, wine, and family members in Italian culture.Growing up in Albany, manhattan, after emigrating there together with his relatives, he consistently sat subsequent to his uncle Aldo and sipped from his wineglass in the course of their prevalent hours-long nuclear family feasts. therefore, from a really early age, Esposito got here to affiliate wine with the heat of kinfolk, the tastes of his mother’s cooking—and, specially, thoughts of his former lifestyles in Italy. while he used to be in his twenties, he headed for brand spanking new York and undertook a profession in wine, starting a trip that may culminate in his founding of Italian Wine retailers, now the top Italian wine resource in the USA. His occupation provided him the chance to make widespread journeys again to Italy to discover wine for his consumers, to profit the traditions of Italian winemaking, and, in so doing, to rediscover the Italian lifestyle he’d left behind.Passion at the Vine is Esposito’s intimate and evocative memoir of his colourful family members lifestyles in Italy, his abrupt transition to lifestyles in the USA, and of his travels into the center of Italy—its wine country—and the lives of these who inhabit it. the result's a remarkably attractive and wonderful wine/travel narrative replete with shiny snap shots of seductive places—the world-famous cellars of Piedmont, the sweeping estates of Tuscany, the plush fields of Campania, the cold hills of Friuli, the windy seashores of Le Marche; and of memorable humans, diversified and colourful wine artisans—from a disco-dancing vintner who bases his farming at the rhythm of the moon to an obsessive prince who destroys his vineyards prior to his loss of life in order that his grapes isn't used incorrectly.Esposito’s luscious debts of the glorious nutrients and wine which are a lot part of Italian existence, and his poignant and infrequently hilarious tales of his relationships together with his relatives and Italian pals, make ardour at the Vine an completely designated and enthralling paintings approximately Italy and its forever seductive way of life.

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We drove for an hour, along the side roads, past the persimmon and olive groves, until we reached the vineyard. The entire crop stretched for acres. There were two rows of poplar trees, twenty feet apart. The vines were trained to grow from one tree to the other, and in the center they wrapped together in a web of branches, thick with green leaves and bunches of freckled yellow orbs. Thirty feet above the ground, the tops of the vines had been wound around trellises. We turned down a dusty road and drove by the crops, my brothers and I with our heads out the window, breathing in the country air like little dogs.

You’ll be back before you even notice you’re gone,” Zio Boris said. IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS of our last day in Italy, October 24, 1974, my family is seated on the concrete steps outside the Rome airport. Everyone wears a muted, mournful expression—except for me, unaware of time and space, standing in front, grinning, positioned in a flamboyant bow. I figured we were going on a trip, and just as Zio Boris had said, we’d be back before we even noticed we were gone. Chapter 3 ALBANY ZIO ALDO MET US at the airport.

You couldn’t find a tomato that was overripe or underripe, or day-old mozzarella. There wasn’t a competitive economy, so all the food was of the highest quality and none of it cost much. Every woman in the area knew where the finest, most fragrant spices were sold. You didn’t buy eggs off the shelf, you knew the man who raised the chickens. ” And if you said yes, he scooped from a cart one of his doomed, scrawny chickens, sliced its head off, plucked it, wrapped it in wax paper, and handed it to you.

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