Win a Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany
Enter to Win a Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany
Learn about Tuscany’s farm-to-table cuisine at Il Campo Cucina – a unique cooking school located in a picturesque hill town near Siena. Meet the “teachers” – local women who hold classes in their homes, on their farms, and in other historic buildings. Discover the secret to making perfect lasagna, gnocchi, tiramisu and other traditional Italian dishes.
This Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany is hosted by Marlane Miriello, an Italian-American who was drawn to the sense of community and sustainable lifestyle of tiny Radicondoli and is passionate about the foods, wines and culture of authentic Italy. This passion caused her to create Il Campo Cucina in 2010.
Radicondoli is a tiny Tuscan hill town located 30 minutes south of Florence (Firenze).
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My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is _________________________. Examples: Under the Tuscan Sun, Tea With Mussolini.
At Il Campo Cucina, guests learn first-hand about farm-to-table cuisine.
WHAT THE GETAWAY INCLUDES:
This Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany includes one week for one person at Il Campo Cucina, based in the beautiful, undiscovered medieval village of Radicondoli, near Siena.
Included in the week are:
- Six nights lodging in a beautiful eco-sustainably restored Tuscan farmhouse (double occupancy): single room upgrade available for US$400
- Pick-up and drop-off on Day One and Day Seven in Florence at specified times and locations.
- All ground transportation during the week.
- English speaking tour guides.
- Four hands-on cooking lessons with Italian mammas and top chefs in village farms and kitchens.
- A cheese tasting and tour of an organic sheep farm and artisan cheese factory followed by lunch with the shepherd and his family.
- A wine, olive oil and Tuscan products tasting.
- Excursions to famous Tuscan villages including Siena and San Gimignano.
- Hikes around the village and farms surrounding Radicondoli.
- Meals in trattorias in the village and countryside as well as in Siena and San Gimignano.
- All meals, wines and beverages during the week.
- A recipe journal and Il Campo Cucina apron.
Many former Il Campo Cucina guests describe their week in Radicondoli as “The trip of a lifetime.”
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
The winner of the Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany has the option of enjoying the trip or transferring the prize. Wouldn’t this make a wonderful gift for someone special?
MISCELLANEOUS
- The Food and Wine Adventure to Tuscany excludes airfare.
- The value of the trip is US$3,800.00.
- The winner can select their week from Il Campo Cucina’s 2013 or 2014 calendar.
- Participation is dependent on space being available.
- The Palio week 2013 or 2014 is not included in the contest.
- The drawing will take place on August 5, 2013 and announced the following day.
- Entries must be submitted before midnight (Pacific Standard Time) August 4, 2013.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
- Participants must be 21 years of age or older residing within or outside of the United States.
- Winner will be drawn at random by computer and notified by the email you used to subscribe to this website.
- Only one entry per person please (leave only one comment below).
Marlane and her assistant Marco are looking forward to welcoming
the winner of the Food and Wine Adventure to Tuscany.
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My favorite book about Italy is A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
‘La Vida Bella’, no doubt my favorite…’Searching for Private Ryan is #2
I must see Florence, Tuscany & Venice before I’m too old to appreciate it. Think its a trip of a life time for me & my bff of 40 yrs (100% Italian-American) who has given up on teaching me how to cook but taught me love of food & wine. My favorite Italian movie is: “Marriage – Italian Style” with la bella Sophia Loren!
My fave book set in Italy is “the food of Love” by Anthony Capella
Girl falls for a Roman braggart and ” his” delicious restaurant meals. But it’s his brother who is the chef! The brother falls in love with her from the kitchen. Love, pathos, longing and of course food descriptions you can taste. I won’t spoil the end, but you can be sure the denoumont is fueled by pasta al dente!
Well, I agree with Lynne Batchelor, but I want to include a favorite movie from
way-back-when: Two Women: dark and tragic, but so moving.
My favorite Italian movie is Bread and Tulips.
My favorite movie set in Italy is a tie between Cinema Paradiso and La Vita E Bella. What an amazing getaway!
My favorite italian movie is bread and tulips!
George and I are avid Italian cookers..We love Italy and George has been there but not his poor wife, Pauline. To win this trip would be a highlight of our life. We are retired now and so active …want to go everywhere…God be with you. sincerely, Pauline Tsoris
My current favorite movie set in Italy is “The Good Year” with Russel Crowe
My favorite movie is “cinema paradise”
Favorite book is “beautiful ruins”
I am half italian and adore Italy—
I had the honor of attending Il Campo Cucina in the second focus group three years ago. The food, laughter, memories and friendships are still fresh in my mind. Many relationships that were made there have continues and grown.
It was a wonderful week and one that I will never forget. My sister, niece and I along with our 96 year old Mother had an unforgettable time.
My favorite Italian movie is Cinema Paridiso. My favorite book about Italy and a very famous Italian is The Agony and the Ectasy, the life of Michaelangelo.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun. I love the views of the country side and villas.
My favorite book about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun. I also l love the movie Il Positano among others. I was lucky enough to visit Radicondoli a few years back and it is still in my heart.
Favorite book…Beaches
I visited Italy when I was a teenager and dream of the day that I can return.
Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite film set in Italy is “A Room with a View.
While I’ve never been to Italy before, I can appreciate the landscape enriched in history and culture. My favorite movie is Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn.
My favourite movie depicting Italy in various forms of composure is “Life is Beautiful” – Its that part of Italy and being Italian that makes Italy real for me….from the romance, to the food and exploration, to hardship and loss – but always a way forward. Andiamo!
I went to Italy as a teenager, would love to go back now. Favorite movie is Under Tuscan Sun
My favorite book set in Italy (Venice) is Laurel Corona’s “The Four Seasons.” Laurel is a San Diego author.
Under the Tuscan Sun
My entire family spent a week in Radicondoli in June of 2010. They fell in love with the village and of course, Marlane, Ill Campo/Cucina’s director.
This experience is a once in a lifetime treat. Not to be missed. Add it to your Bucket List.
In response to Angela Eddins: “Mine,too.”
Without a doubt, Under the Tuscan Sun. My favorite quote is “They say they built the train tracks over the alps between Vienna and Venice before there was a train that could make the trip… they built it anyway. They know one day the train would come.” These lines could be about my life.
Life is Beautiful
My favorite film set in Italy is Il Postino. Massimo Troisi is amazing.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Il Postino
My favorite Movies – the scenery in these movies make you fall in Love with Italy
1. Roman Holiday
2. Three coins in a Fountain
3. Eat Pray Love
4. Cinama paradisco
5. A Room with a View
6. Bread and Tulips
Book =
1. Quiet Corners of Rome
2. 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go by Susan Van Allen
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
I know it’s very cliche, but Under The Tuscan Sun is still a favorite that is watched often!
Favorite,movie “Cinema Paradiso” and the old Time-Life series of cookbooks one
on the cooking of Italy
I love any italian movie… they are so inspiring of a certain way of life… from Cinema Paradiso… to love Under the Sun of Tuscany… through Bicycle Thief, La Dolce Vitta… there are so many great italian movies and directors, and so many of them have to do with food and wine!
Elizabeth, what a great contest–hope I win! In fact, I just last week added ti mu bucket a trip to Italy!
Favorite movie set in Tuscany: Under he Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book & movie about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun!
my favorite movie set in Italy is Two Women with Sofia Loren. The sexiest woman alive…
My family aunt, mother, sister and grandmother attended one of your life changing adventures and their beautiful memories and friendships still sustain them I was pregnant with my second child and could not fly or I would have been there too! I must say, my absolute favorite movie set in Italy has to be Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. A close second is Summertime with Katherine Hepburn. Thank you!
Grazie! My favorite movie set in Italy is still Roman Holiday –so many films to choose from though.
Angela Eddins said “Love that quote” in reference to Sue Vogel’s June 22 comment about the Italians building railroad tracks from Venice to Vienna before there was a train that could climb over the mountains between those cities.
Unfortunately, because Angela’s words were in a comment separate from her entry comment, I couldn’t post her thoughts without invalidating her entry. A comment = an entry, and entries are one per person.
But I didn’t want to let Angela’s words go unpublished because I, too, love what Sue said.
On another matter, be sure you have subscribed to Authentic Luxury Travel. A computer program will pick the winning entry at random and only subscribers are eligible.
So many, many wonderful movies to choose from, but I must say my all-time favorite is “Under the Tuscan Sun.”
Hello friends! My favorite movies are about two men that struggled their entire lives to help children rehabilitate their lives. One is called “John Bosco” He got homeless children working in dangerous factories, living on the streets, to come to his home for children, the “Oratory” where he taught them music, printing skills, etc, so they could achieve in the world later on. The other movie, is a about another man, Don Carlo Gnocchi, who picked up homeless, maimed children wandering the streets of Italian cities. He was given a large home where he was able to get local prosthetics for them, and also taught them how to develop skills, to develop careers later on. These films will make you cry, and there are so many exquisite scenes of Italy. The children are beautiful! Thank you for this gift!! love, h
Books – “Living in Tuscany”, Bruno Racine has a little bit of everything from vineyards, gardens to artistic heritages. “Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany”, James Bentley & Hugh Palmer we used this to plan a trip and were well rewarded.
The Agony and the Ecstacy novel about Michelangelo but one that ignited my interest in Italy…..i read this book before my semester abroad in Florence, and I have been returning ever since
Favorite book: La Bella Lingua
Favorite movie: Mediterranio (not actually set in Italy, but I love it enough to make up for that small detail)
Favorite book: La Bella Lingua
Favorite film: The Leopard with Burt Lancaster
Also visited Italy as a teen and went back 6 years ago to celebrate my 15th anniversary cancer free. I went alone for two weeks and fell in love again.
I love everything Italian!!
On my earlier comment I had my favourite book as La Bella Lingua, this is my favourite website, my favourite book is “an Italian Journey” a harvest of revelations in the olive groves of Tuscany. You should take one at least once in your lifetime. I’m looking forward to my first!
Ciao
Halfway to Each Other, How a year in Italy brought our family home
By Susan Pohlman
A touching story of life, marriage, family, travel and Italy! What could be better!
favourite film: Padre Padrino
favourite book: Sicilian Carousel by L. Durrell
Book: “The Secret of Santa Vittoria”! Fabulous!!!
Movie: “Saving Grace” with Tom Conte. Gave me hope. “My House in Umbria.”
Favorite book about Italia… The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
My favourite book is Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes for its humorous and refreshing descriptions of life tucked just a little bit away from the Italian Riviera. Beautifully authentic.
My favorite book about Italy is E.M. Forster’s Room with a View and the movie based on it by Merchant and Ivory with an operatic soundtrack and countryside and Venice views to transport you there.
My favorite movie set in Italy is l’ultimo neve di primavera. I remember watching this as a child and seeing my dad crying his eyes out!!
One of my favorite movies that was filmed in Italy is I Only Like You with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. Nice scenes in Tuscany – which I hope to get to see some day – as well as in Positano.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley”… While you might not warm up to Mr. Ripley himself, the beautiful Italian scenery is sometimes breathtaking that takes place in several parts of Italy, including the Amalfi Coast.
From the place inside of me as a Mom to a precious bambino, I like movies for families. I absolutely adored the movie named “The Tiger and the Snow” by the Oscar winning Roberto Benigni whom also starred and directed it. As far as movie settings, I heart “La Dolce Vita”. By Fellini. However, when one is choosing places to eat in Italy or places to go, It’s impossible to select just one. I always favor “Cinema Paradiso”. Musically, my all time favorite song in a movie is from “il Ultimo Bacio” with the handsome Stefano Accorsi. One of the most memorable movies is “Marriage Italian Style” The best book I have read is the biography of Micheangelo by Irving Stone and travel guides by Lets Go.
The bible of cook books is entitled “The Art of Eating Well” by Pelligrino Artusi. The Patriarch of our family prefers hearty foods such as pasta. My Pilates teacher re-quoted a wise Italian guy by saying: “A life without pasta, is not a life worth living!” I agree wholeheartedly and would be a dream come true to extend my culinary art techniques from an authentic chef in Tuscany. I fall to my knees and pray for a chance to formally learn making my Great Grandma proud.
The experience would bring me closer to my Grandparents from Southern Italy whom I have never met and Italian-American actor James Galdofini who appreciated the art of good food.
My favorite movie- oh so hard to choose. Sopia Loren – Two Women and Under the Tuscan Sun. Can’t wait to visit so that I can help so many of my friends that want to visit Italy.
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Roman Holiday”.
One of my favorite movies set in Italy is
Dear Goddamned Friends – and it’s set in Tuscany.
What an awesome trip!
My favorite my favorite movie set in Italy is without a doubt “Cinema Paradiso.” A close second is “Gladiator.” It’s the Italy of long ago – but it’s still Italy.
My favorite book about Italy was “The Agony and the Ecstasy.”
I love Roman Holiday and Under the Tuscan Sun! I love Italy!
What a wonderful sounding week. There are so many books and movies and poems from and about Italy I couldn’t even begin to choose favorites. I could enjoy all
My favorite book is a well-written classic, The Italians by Barzini. Fantastico!
My favorite book set in Italy is Blood, Bones, and Butter!
Favourite film set in Italy (and of all time) The Talented Mr Ripley.
I have to say that “Stealing Beauty” is my favorite italian movie along with “Under the Tuscan Sun”, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and last, but not least, “Cinema Paradiso”. My favorite book about Italy is Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”. Good luck everybody!
Favorite movie – Il Postino
Great contest, Elizabeth! Lots of good movies set in Italy! I’d have to go with Il Postino.
By far my favorite movie set in Italy is Bread and Tulips. I think I have seen it dozens of times! twms
My favorite book about Italy, given the food and Italy connection for this contest is Under the Tuscan Sun. That said, there are so many good books starring Italy: Romola, A Room with a View, Galileo’s Daughter, The Birth of Venus.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday. So many wonderful movies set in Italy as well: A Room with a View, La Dolce Vita, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, La Vita è Bella.
I thin that Under the Tuscan Sun was so well done- it wins hands down- both the book and the movie
My favorite movie set in Italy is Up at the Villa
Ah decisions, decisions.
There’s a bunch. Top of the short list includes:
Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Roman Holiday, Under the Tuscan Sun, Tea with Mussolini, Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella).
I hope that we all get to Italy soon. In the meantime, I’ll prepare your delectable recipes and serve them on my Italian ceramic plates with Andrea Bocelli playing in the background and visualize that you are calling my name soon!
Ciao Tuscany. Molte grazie. 
Yes Stealing Beauty too!!!!!!
My favorite movie featuring Italy is “La Dolce Vita”
Three movies: The Passion of the Christ- unbelievably moving (and controversial!); The English Patient and way way back Ben Hur!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Il Postino.
Under the Tuscan Sun ….Book and Movie…
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking!
I would delight in the opportunity to spend a week cooking in Italy. It is actually on my bucket list!
Thanks you for the opportunity to throw my hat in the ring!!!
My favorite movie set in Italy is Il Postino
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun. It’s my go-to for mid-life crisis inspiration! And Diane Lane is fab.
What a lovely contest!
My favorite Italy book… It’s a Ross up between A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, both by Marlena DeBlasi. I love how her true to life story along with her passion for writing and culinary creations make the books impossible to put down.
As for a movie? Another toss up–between The Tourist and The Italian Job, both versions
Baci!!
Favorite movie is definitely “Under The Tuscan Sun”-that could so be me… Favorite book is “Playing For Pizza” by John Grisham.
My favorite book about Italy is “Eat, Pray, Love.” My favorite film about Italy is “A Room with a View.”
Eat, Pray, Love is my favorite book/movie set in Italy.
My favorite book/movie about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
“Under the Tuscan Sun” is my favorite book and movie about Italy.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Eat Pray Love….
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Examples Under the Tuscan Sun
My favorite book set in Italy is Villa Triste by Lucretia Grindle.
Like Water for Chocolate
My favorite movie about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is
Much Ado about nothing!
My favorite movie about Italy really is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun
I, Claudius by Robert Graves, and the PBS series based on it!
THis is a fabulous opportunity, thanks!!!
I love the Godfather books, but for the beauty of Italy, I’d definitely go with the movie “under the tuscan sun”!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book and movie set in Italy is Eat, Pray, Love
Eat pray love
Eat, Pray, Love……love!
Roman Holiday and Room with a View
My favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday. I just came back from Italy a few weeks ago and absolutely fell in love with the country. Would love to go back again since I didn’t get a chance to go to Tuscany!
My favorite movie set in Italy is The Italian Job
My favorite book about Italy is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
There are many wonderful books about Italy both fiction and non-fiction. One of my favorites is a book called Many Beautiful Things by Vincent Schiavelli (an actor). It is about his experiences traveling to his grandparents home town in Sicily. It is filled with great anecdotes and many Sicilian recipes. It’s a light, fun read.
My favorite movie set in Italy is In Love and War.
I really enjoyed the Italian setting of Letters to Juliet.
Rosso come il Cielo – So many fun Italian movies this one
based on a real life person.
Thank you for this amazing opportunity
Under the Tuscan sun!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, but my favorite movie about Italy is The Talented Mr. Ripley…Italy in the 1950′s!
My favorite books about Italy include the Commisario Brunetti series by Donna Leon — Brunetti takes great joy in eating the wonderful meals prepared by his wife Paola with his entire family and every detail is lovingly described; and the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri take Montalbano either to a series of restaurants where he enjoys each course or to his home where he heats up meals — described in detail — made for him by his housekeeper. Wonderful and, I might add, mouthwatering! These two characters have a great appreciation for Italian cooking in whatever part of Italy they find themselves.
Is this my friend Patsy from San Diego???
My favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday.
Also, We went on the Il Campo Food Travel Adventure.
Oh my what a wonderful wonderful way to experience the Tuscan region. The week was a slice out of time with learning traditional foods, visits to farms, to learn how to cook, and experience cheeses, wines and all.
The farm to table experience in this agro-tourism microcosm where you dive into the everyday life of the locals. And eat!!, you learn to cook and eat the freshest and most wonderful foods. Really we have told all our friends and family how great an experience it was, many of them, have gone or are looking into it. If I win what a wonderful thing to happen.
My favorite Italian movie is Bread and Chocolate
My favorite Italian movie is Cinema Paradiso (1988).
Thanks, Elizabeth, for letting me dream about this trip!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Inkheart.
My favorite book set in Italy is Eat, Pray, Love.
My favorite book about Italy is A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
Favorite book just might be The Smiles of Rome.
A Room With A View
Favourite book: Miss Garnet’s Angel by Sally Vickers. I learned about Prosecco and the joys of drinking it on lovely sunny afternoons from this book!
Favourite movie: Genova with Colin Firth,
Spent 28 days in Italy in 2007 – it’s time to return. Hope I win this prize. Favorite movie set in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun
My favorite movie about Italy is Under The Tuscan Sun. It’s life in a beautiful location.
My favorite movie is “Roman Holiday” – Sophia Loren depicted the beautiful Italian women so well.
Il Postino, made in 1994 – quite a film. And of course ANYTHING with Sophia Loren in it. Just imagine inviting Sophia to the Tuscany cooking school and learning how to really make sauce!
Book – The Italians by Luigi Barzini
Movie set – The Tourist
Oh, this is challenging to single out a favorite book and movie. Italy is such a draw for me. One of my favorite books: “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” Also, for a lighter hearted experience, “A Thousand Days in Venice” and S.Maugham’s Up At the Villa.
Movies: Much Ado About Nothing; Il Postino, and the classic, Cinema Paradisio. I’m enjoying reminiscing. It would be such a trip (in the real sense of it), to win.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Eat Pray Love.
I badly want to go to Italy! It would be such a romantic trip. Thanks for the chance to win this trip.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is History of the World. Although it is not entirely set in Italy, but that is my favorite part.
I hate to be unoriginal, but “Under the Tuscan Sun” is my fave Italian book and movie. I had the chance to hear Frances Mayes speak in San Diego and to walk by her home in Tuscany (where we yelled out to one of her relatives who was out on the balcony). What a thrill to connect the two from real life and then to dream through the film!
Stealing Beauty is a beautiful film with Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci…the Italian countryside is magnificent and beckons me forth. Such appreciation for the essence and spirit of the land. I have spent very little time in Italy and would love to have an opportunity to explore, experience, delight and simply be…Cynthia
My favorite book set in Italy is “Under the Tuscan Sun” (not the movie). The food in the book w/recipes was fantastic.
I like the movie, “Letters to Juliet”. And The Tourist for VENICE, the real star of the movie!
My grandfather was born in Italy..near Cassino. It would be great to go!
Ciao!
My favorite move: Roman Holiday!
My favorite movie set in Italy is “A Room with a View”
My favorite book about Italy isFrances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite movie actually is Under the Tuscan Sun with Diane Lane. I’ve been to Florence and had a wonderful time in Italy! I’d go back in a heartbeat.
My favorite book about Italy is a cookbook by Lidia Bastianich called Lidia’s Favorite Recipes: 100 Foolproof Italian Dishes (Hardcover). I love hardcover books and read cookbooks as though they were novels. A great way to learn about a country is through it’s food and culture which is abundant in my favorite book.
Wow sounds really fun even tho I don’t drink wine!
Pick me, pick me I gotta win
My favorite book is Under the Tuscan Sun. As good as the movie was, the book is even better.
Ahhh, to live the dream of walking the streets my favorite movie “Under the Tuscan sun”. And added to that the privilege of cooking and sharing time with their people has no price. Thank you for the opportunity!
Under the tuscan sun
Favorite movie set in Italy:The English Patient.
While its not about Italy, my new favorite book would have to be “The Road to Burgundy: The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France”.
About a guy who follows his dream. Something I’d love to do someday. In Italy!
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971 film adaptation of book by same name). Would like to read the book one day.
I adore the Godfather books and movies.
Roman Holiday
My favorite book about Italy – a must read before you travel is “Italy, A Love Story: Women Write About the Italian Experience” by Camille Cusumano. This book is a wonderful collection of essays where women write about their Italian experience. Each story is personal and moving and nothing ever turns out as expected. A woman hoping to reunite with her lover, dumps him in favor of spending time on the sofa watching television with his mom and listening to her stories. Others go in hopes of eating a local sea urchin delicacy only to find themselves drawn to the immense historical context of the area that they failed in their search to find the urchins. As I read these stories I can’t help but wonder what unexpected turn my trip to Italy will take. Thanks for the opportunity for a return trip to Tuscany!
My favorite book set in and around Italy is Correllli”s Mandolin – I enjoyed the book immensely, and it was a great prelude to seeing the movie.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday.
Thanks!
To Rome with Love. Partly because of the wonderful light!
My favorite book about Italy would have to be Under The Tuscan Sun, but Eat, Pray, Love was a big inspiration for a visit there as well!!
What a wonderful opportunity! My favorite movie set in Italy: Cinema Paradiso.
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Roman Holiday”.
My favorite movie set filmed in Italy is A Room With A View. Love Florence.
To cook and eat in Italy would be an epicurean dream come true. Definitely the movie Cinema Paradiso. The mixture of its stunning cinematography and a bittersweet storyline tugs at the heart strings and keeps you captivated.
My all-time absolute favorite movies set in Italy:
Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet.. with Olivia Hussey
Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew… with the fiery combo of Taylor and Burton
Zeffirelli’s stunning sets in such colorful surroundings combined with Shakespeare’s brilliant scripts…. what could be better?
Favorite Italian movie? It’s gotta be La Dolce Vita – a brilliant film that changed the way we see the city. Who can ever go to the Trevi Fountain without thinking of this classic film?
I would love the opportunity to explore Italy and learn to cook real authentic food! I never been to Italy and can’t wait to go! I hope I win!!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy is The Silver Spoon.
Love, love, love Italy–and Italian food. My favorite movie
is Under the Tuscan Sun.
I would love the opportunity to see Italy and experience this generous prize. My newest favorite book about Italy is called The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri -it’s the first of a series featuring Inspector Montalbano and is a witty take on Sicilian life.
I’ve always dreamed of going to Italy! My favorite movie Roman Holiday! Thank you!
Favorite book set in Italy: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Farewell to Arms, The Talented Mr Ripley
Favourite book: “The Story of San Michele” by Axel Munthe. This started my desire to visit the country
My favorite movie set in Italy is The English Patient!
So many good movies and book, but my favorite Movie is Roman Holiday. Super excited – thanks for doing it
So many favorite movies and books. Selecting just one… Roman Holiday. Coming to Italy in late October for the Truffle Season. If I don’t win wondering if it is possible to stop by, or do you close for the season after your earlier October class. Will be doing research about Wine Tourism and food cannot be separated from that. I have a membership organization for Hospitality Professionals in Northern California (Napa Valley and Sonoma)with over 1,000 members. URL is part of my email address. Hope to meet you whatever form it takes.
Colby
I’m a longtime lover of Italy as I saw Rome through the eyes of love, many years ago.
I loved the movie, “Under the Tuscan Sun.” It brought back lots of memories.My favorite movie set in Italy is: “Under the Tuscan Sun.”
Hi Michelle, I combined your two comments into one because the contest is “one entry per person” and a comment = an entry. Cheers, Elizabeth
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Tea with Mussolini plus many others–
My favorite book and movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is really anything Italian, but I did love “Under the Tuscan Sun.”
Marlane is warm and caring, I can only imagine the tour to be that and more!
My favourite move set in Italy directed by an Italian director is called Life Is Beautiful (1997) or “La vita è bella” by its original title. Such a heart warming story with incredible actors, a must see. Buona fortuna everyone!
My favorite movie set in Italy is Asso and Under the Tuscan Sun.
As a new film history student seeing the later films of Federico Fellini changed my life. His colors, those faces and the stories, so far from anything this Southern California suburban girl had ever experienced, are still with me. Antonioni’s Blow Up came next and on my love of Italian cinema spun to the heart break of The Sheltering Sky by Bertolucci. A few years later I wandered northern Italy briefly but now, as a fledgling foodie, blogger and yoga teacher, would love to expand my palate and passions with a deeper trip.
So many great book and movies based on Italy it’s hard to pick. My favorite movie has to be Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck.
My favorite book about Italy is Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life of Italy. I was so excited to meet Frances Mayes and have the book signed by her!
My favorite movie set in Italy is The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Love italy so much! The food, the men, the culture!
Favorite book:
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
My favorite movie (also a play) about Italy is Enchanted April. Such a lovely movie about women coming into their own and gorgeous look at Italy.
I’m half Italian. I would love to take my daughter there. She has never been and she is such a hard working college student; helping me through the last few years of illness. It would be a wonderful and refreshing new start for us both. She is 3/4 Italian. We are in Love with Italy and Cooking all things Italian!
1. Two Women
2. Roman Holiday
3. Three coins in a Fountain
4. Eat Pray Love
5. Cinama Paradisco
6. Under the Tuscan Sun
7. A Room with a View
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday.
Thank you for this opportunity to win a trip to the most beautiful place in the world: Italia! Favorite movie: Under The Tuscan Sun
Favorite book: Eat, Pray, Love
Favorite cookie: Pafana, only found in Barga, Italy, my nonna’s hometown.
Movies I like for Italy are Eat Pray Love and To Rome With Love.
My choice is Tea With Mussolini
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Quantum of Solace.
I actually enjoyed the book, Under the Tuscan Sun, more than the movie. We stayed in Cortona and it was truly one of the best vacations of my life.
I adore Roman Holiday, it captures the spirit of the vacationer in Italy and the magic of the country.
Love the Tuscany area…visited there five years ago. I want to go back. My favorite book about the area is Under The Tuscan Sun.
My favorite movie is Dangerous Beauty set in Venice.
So difficult to choose just one favorite work about Italy, so I’ll choose the first book I read about Italy as a child, “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” It has fueled many fantasies about visiting Italy.
I hope I win, I am a Photographer and have wanted to travel to Tuscany for many years.
My favorite film is for Under The Tuscan Sun. The scenes of Cortona were beautiful and each time I see the movie I long to go more and more.
You have seen this before- Under the Tuscan Sun and I know I am going to win!
My favorite movie set in Italy is La Dolce Vita.
My favorite book about Italy is Artusi’s La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene: igiene, economia, buon gusto (Kitchen Science and the Art of Eating Well: hygiene, budget, good taste) – the first real book about all the delicious recipes of the Italian kitchen.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is ‘Letters to Juliet’
Books: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; Donna Leon’s Venice mysteries; Jan Morris’s Venice; All books by Tiziano Terzani: he didn’t write about Italy, but he’s a Italian journalist and writer.
Films: Il Postino; La Strada; Life is Beautiful; La Dolce Vita; Le Notti di Calabria; Bread and Tulips; Le quattro volte…
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
A Little Romance – although it starts in Paris, leads to Venice!
My favorite book is “Under the Tuscan Sun”!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy is The Italians as well as Under The Tuscon Sun and my favorite movie set in Italy is The English Patient. Never seen Tuscon Sun in real, hope onde day I will.
My favorite book/movie about Italy is Eat, Love, Pray. Love that book / movie and would love to visit!!
My favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday!
Fav movie “A Room With a View”
My favorite movie set in Italy is Summertime with Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, and Darren McGavin.
A Room with a View — hands down.
My favorite movie set in Italy is A Room With A View
I’ve never been to Tuscany – but it’s the #1 place on my “bucket list” — my favorite film set in Tuscany would be Life Is Beautiful, but as a writer, I’d love my next book to be written from there!
My favorite book set in Italy is “Beautiful Ruins.”
My current favorite movie about Italy is “Letters to Juliet,” a real charmer.
My favorite movie about Italy is “Letters to Juliette”
My favorite book set in Italy is ‘A Soldier Of The Great War’, by Mark Halperin. It’s a gloriously moving portrait of a young boy growing as at the turn of the last century, learning about art and love and life in the war to end all wars, and the writing is the stuff of dreams, as is the tableau it paints of Italy…
My favorite movie set in Italy is To Rome With Love.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is “A Month by the Lake.”
BUT, my Mom took cooking lessons in Tuscany many years ago, and I would love to follow in her footsteps!
It’s “Under the Tuscan sun” for me – truly entertaining and inspiring!
The Godfather II
……just finished Inferno by Dan Brown, can’t wait to experience Venice Nd rest of Italy!
My favorite books about Italy are Donna Leon’s series of mysteries set in Venice, featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Every guy’s favorite movie set in Italy: Gladiator
My favorite movie is Roman Holiday
I also just read Light in the Ruins and really enjoyed it because I had been to so many of the locations in the book.
My absolute favorite movie set in Italy? A Room With A View.
Ah, I so look forward to visiting Italy.. wouldn’t this just be the perfect way?
One of my favorite movies set in Italy is the Talented Mr. Ripley, so beautiful!
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Eat Pray Love”, Ciao
My favorite Italian movie is a toss up between Life is Beautiful and Roman Holiday.
My all time favorite movie about Italy is ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’
Il Postino! Love that movie!
Three Coins in a Fountain, which I saw as a little girl.
Am I now entered into the contest. This is a little confusing.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Nine. Love the style, scenery and music!
My favorite movie set in Italy is Il Postino! Siena is my favorite place in the world, in bocca del lupo a me.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Only You. Would love to go back to bella Italia!
Favorite Movie: A Room with a View. Do I win?
My favorite movie set in Italy, is, without a doubt, Kenneth Branagh’s version of Much Ado About Nothing. The countryside was as much a star as the actors themselves. Perfect movie!
My House in Umbria!
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Ital is “Under the Tuscan Sun “. I was happy to finally travel to Tuscany.
My favorite movie set in Italy is definitely Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. They were so cute and charming, while they visited all the different locations in Rome.
My favorite is on oldie, but still goodie…”Roman Holiday” with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
Under the Tuscan Sun; the book and the movie brought Tuscany alive for me. What an incredible place.
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Cinema Paradiso”. A little romance, a lot of nostalgia. Nice.
Cinema Paradiso is my favorite movie. Nothing made my film class worth the money more. Makes me cry everytime I see it
Much Ado About Nothing- Scenery unbelieveable
My favorite book about Italy Beautful Ruins or my favorite movie set in Italy is Eat, Pray, Love
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Il Divo.
I watched it for the first time and I am fascinated with politics. This was an amazing movie and as I continue with my Rosetta Stone courses, I look forward to one day being able to delete the subtitles and actually visit Italy!!!
I also just recently watched, I am Love… the scenery was so refined.
My favourite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday.
My favorite book about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is the film Nine.
My favorite book about Italy is one I just finished reading: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Life is Beautiful.”
Under the Tuscan Sun. I so want to be her. Start fresh and write (instead of cook–but I will eat!), live and love in Italy.
My favourite movies set in Italy are The Gladiator, Life is beautiful and The Italian Job
My favorite movie is Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck which was set in Rome
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is My House in Umbria. Beautiful country!
A recent delight – Italian Neighbors by Tim Parks.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Eat, Pray, Love
My favorite book set in Italy is “The Sixteen Pleasures” by Robert Hellenga, written with such love for the culture and art. I also just read “Beautiful Ruins” which was great!
Best movie set has to be the original “Italian Job” Original Minis running amuck in Italy… what’s not to like?
My favorite book about Italy is A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Under the Tuscan Sun
My favorite movie set in Italy is Three Coins In A Fountain
My favorite movie set in Italy, without a doubt, is Cinema Paradiso.
The Inspector Brunetti novels by Donna Leon are wonderful – must return to Venice!
Favorite movie is “Tea with Mussolini”. It combines Florence, San Gimignano, politics and phenomenal actresses of a certain age (which used to seem quite vintage)and is entirely entertaining.
My all time favourite movie set in Italy would have to be Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
My favorite book (under the tuscan sun) about Italy and/or my favorite movie set in Italy is the godfather
My favorite movie set in Italy is still “Under the Tuscan Sun”. It made me fall in love with Tuscany, and of course Diane Lane.
My favorite book about Italy & my favorite movie set in Italy is Eat Pray Love!!
Such an inspiration!
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun!
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Room With a View.”
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun. Although I have been to many touristy parts of Italy, I would love to stay in a villa and see what life in Italy is really like.
Under the Tuscan Sun – favorite book & movie about Italy!
“Italian Days” by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. NY Times called it a “masterpiece of observation.” Glamour Magazine said: “Barbara Grizzuti Harrison’s wonderful journal will make you update your passport and dream of subletting your job, your home…” It is, absolutely the most fascinating book about Italy ever! But, the German poet, Goethe, said it best of Italy in the fewest words: “What can one do here with a single pen?”
My favorite book about Italy is ITALY: THE PLACES IN BETWEEN, Kate Simon.
I think my intro to Italian movies must have been Roman Holiday and Three Coins in the Fountain. Still favorites. Love Romeo & Juliet by Zeffirelli (spellbinding), Much Ado About Nothing by Branagh, Le Notti de Cambria, La Strada, Journey to Italy with Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders. I love Donna Leon’s mysteries that take place in Venice. The Shoemaker’s Wife starts in Italy. The City of Falling Angels. Robert Harris’ Pompeii was fun. Iain Pears is always great: Death and Restoration. The Birth of Venus made me feel like I was there in Florence during the Renaissance. Absolute favorite: Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice.
I can pack in 10 minutes.:)
Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet.
I love Under the Tuscan Sun, would love to move there one day…
Under the Tuscan Sun…just beautiful!
Where Angels Fear to Tread and Roman Holiday
There are many greats, but one of the best, Cinema Paradiso!
My favorite book about Italy is “Greene on Capri” by Shirley Hazzard. My favorite movies are “Roman Holiday” and “The Best of Youth.”
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
by Patricia Highsmith
Mangia Mangia Mangia
My favorite film set is a toss up between Letters to Juliet and Death in Venice.
My favorite book set in Italy is Room with a View.
We love Italy. Italy is the best place in the world!
under the Tuscan sun, of course.
My favorite movie set in Italy is “The Talented Mr Ripley:.
Being an incurable romantic….Under the Tuscan Sun , Eat Pray Love or even the classic Roman Holiday. <3 Thank you.
“Stealing Beauty” and “A Room with a View” are my top two favorites.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Eat Pray Love!
This might not be original, but mine is Eat Pray Love! I have always dreamed of traveling to Italy since I read that book!
The lovely movie “Enchanted April”, set in a Portofino villa in the 1920s.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King.
My favorite movie set, at least in part, set in Italy was “The Longest Day”
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie Under the Tuscan Sun, both the book and the movie.
The Bicycle Thief
My my favorite movie set in Italy is When in Rome (2010). Cute story, great scenery!
Favorite movie/book. When I was very young and saw “Three Coins in a Fountain” on TV, I swooned over the romance of it all. Later, it was “Roman Holiday” and “Under the Tuscan Sun” (first the book, then the film). When I saw “Eat Pray Love,” I wondered why she left Italy. I also enjoyed “Light in the Piazza,” a sweet musical.
My favorite recent book about Italy? “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter. Love to visit that piece of the Italian coast…
I love vintage movies and Roman Holiday is one of my favorites!
The movie “A Room With A View”
My favorite movie and book about Italy is still Under the Tuscan Sun! Yet so many other good ones too!
My attraction to Italy began with the movie Rome Adventure, seen with my best friend in the local theater when we were just teens! Right now my coffee table holds the book One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy. What a pleasure it would be to spend a week cooking in one for real!
My favorite movie about an Italian man of honor is “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.” I did not grow up eating Italian food so when I discovered it as an adult, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Would really be in heaven if I had the chance to learn to cook Italian food in Italy!!!
Under the Tuscan Sun.
Under the Tuscan Sun and some of the others about Italian food & coffee
My favorite book about Italy is “Under the Tuscan Sun”. My husband and I both read the book and saw the movie. In 2002, we went to Tuscany, and while in Cortona, we walked to the villa of Frances Mayes. We’d love to do it again!
Tea with Mussolini
I will go with A Room With A View
My favorite Italian movie is Three Coins in the Fountain
My favorite movie set in Italy is A room with a View
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’—both the book and movie are great!!.
Il Postino was one of my favorite movies. Italy is a magical place and I’d love to return to an area that I have not visited plus the cooking classes.
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham…..I believe my experience when I have my first ever travel to Italy will be similar to Ricks..all new…confusing..exciting..
Anything by M.F.K.Fisher about Italy or cooking -movie Garden of Finzi-Contini
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Cinema Paradiso.”
My favorite book is called Heat by Bill Buford about Mario Batali’s cooking odessy in Italy.
Under the Tuscan Sun.
I love the beautiful scenes and the struggle & love that Diane Lane character goes through.
So BEAUTIFUL
Three Coins in the Fountain and Under the Tuscan Sun are my 2 favorite escape movies.
My favorite movie that was set in Italy is “Life is Beautiful”, Italy is a very special place with wonderful people, and fabulous food.
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham made me want to stay in a little Italian village for a month or so.
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham. It details a great transition for an American slowly embracing all things Italian.
My favorite movie/book about Italy WAS the portion of “Eat, Love, Pray” until I read “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter. I was so ready to get on a plane and experience the small village atmosphere, the rustic inns.
The best Italian film is “Le Quattro Volte” (The Four Times)…about life in the remote town of Caulonia.
Might sound strange but I’ve bee fascinated by Frommer’s
“Tuscany and Umbria” guide. Can’t wait to visit for real.
All time favorite, like many others, is Under the Tuscan Sun. Ever since that film came out that has been on my “must travel” list. I know Italy is calling to me and will surely go there soon!
One of my all time favorite movies is “Summertime” with Katharine Hepburn and Rosanno Brazzi and set in Venice.
I loved Under the Tuscan Sun.
Roman Holiday and Eat Pray Love
I am Italian and would love to win this trip!
I loved Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite movie set in Italy is ‘Tea With Mussolini’.
I enjoyed Eat,Pray,Love – especially the book with it’s vivid descriptions of characters. Was wishing she had spent all her time in Italy! But when I really need an escape, I watch Under the Tuscan Sun again.
My favorite movie was My House in Umbria, and Enchanted April.
Tuscany would be a fascinating place to learn from Italian women how to cook. What a beautiful region to visit.
I loved the book Galileo’s Daughter, by David Sobel and there have been so many great movies set in Italy! If I were to just narrow it down to Tuscany I can’t deny falling under a magic spell while reading Under the Tuscan Sun and then again while watching the movie- which was fab!
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Sounds like a perfect week in Italy. Love to cook and eat and raised by Italian born parents from Naples and Tuscany. What better way to pay tribute to them than by going to Italy again.
Love all Italian movies, books etc.
Eat Pray Love is both a favorite book and movie featuring Rome. I also enjoyed Under the Tuscan Sun (book), along with the town scenes shot in Sicily for The Godfather (movie).
Italy calls me. I must go! Please pick me.
Eat Pray Love
Favorite movie in Italian setting: “Certified Copy”, filmed in and around Cortona. and favorite book: “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walker, set in Cinque Terre.
My favorite movie set in Italy is the inspirational “Life is Beautiful”
I loved both the book and the movie, “Under the Tuscan Sun.”
Looks like the best Italy spot for our 50Th. anniversary. Our book Under the Tuscan Sun will become real.
Under The Tuscan Sun made me fall in love with the vineyards, the people, the food, the beautiful old stone architecture and the sunflowers. Took my breath away!
The Italian Job — loved it.
It’s difficult to choose one movie set in Italia. My favorites are:
1. Cinema Paradiso – reminds me of growing up in a little town in Argentina
2. Il Gattopardo- beautiful Claudia Cardinale
3. Il Postino – beautiful pictures
4. Under the Tuscany Sun – love to visit this gorgeous area
Thanks for the opportunity!!!
The Italian job — loved the movie and just seeing Italy again.
My favorite Itlian movie is “Life is Beautiful” by Roberto Benigni. My other favorite, though it is not enirely about Italy, is “Eat Prey Love”.
My favorite book about Italy is Eat, Pray, Love
My favorite movie based in Italy is “Marriage Italian Style” with Sophia Loren. My favorite book is “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain, and while the book is not specifically about Italy but about his world tour, the section he wrote on Italy is very amusing.
My favourite movie/play set in Italy is Enchanted April.
Something I’ve wanted to do all my life!
My favorite movie that takes place in Italy is Roman Holiday.
My favorite book about Italy is by Ferenc Mate; A Vineyard in Tuscany, a wine lover’s dream.
Our 25th wedding is coming up and this would be the trip of our life. To see Italy as shown in `Under the Tuscany Sun’ would be a dream come true.
Favorite movie featuring Italy: comedy “Divorce Italian Style” and drama “2 Women”. You see why both Marcello Mastrionni and Sophia Loren are national treasures.
Favorite movie “In the Garden of the Finzi-Continis” although horribly sad.
“Eat, Pray, Love” They had me at “Eat”.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book is “Under the Tuscan Sun”. I love the recipes! If I win, I’ll probably give the trip to my son, who is a fabulous cook and who really needs a vacation.
My favorite book set in Italy is “The Last Days of Pompeii” by Victorian author Edward Bulwer Lytton.
My favorite book is Rick Steves’ Florence and Tuscany….it makes me dream about all the wonderful things to do there!
It’s always difficult to pick favorites…
In books, i’ll go with Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series. The Dance of the Seagull (#15), if i had to pick just one.
In films, how about Cinema Paradiso
My favorite book on Italy is under the Tuscan sun
My favorite movie set in Italy is Roman Holiday as well as Under the Tuscan Sun! I am second generation Italian living in San Diego and it has been my dream to visit Tuscany!
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Under the Tuscan Sun”.
If I have to pick just one would be Cinema Paradiso. I can’t wait to get on the plane!
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Woody Allen’s “To Rome with Love”!
Godfather
I love the movie ” EAT, PRAY,LOVE”
A couple of my favorite quotes:
“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…thats how the light of God gets in”
” Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be”
My favorite books about Italy are Under The Tuscan Sun and Eat, Pray, Love.
I’ve always dreamed of coming to the Tuscany region and taking a cooking class, or 2, or 3! Hopefully, sooner than later.
Grazie!
MY FAVORITE ITALIAN MOVIE IS “PANE E TULIPA.” BELLISIMA!
My favorite movie is Under The Tuscan Sun, and I also loved “Letters To Juliet”.
Spending a week in Tuscany cooking, wine, cheese and olive oil tasting and sightseeing would be a dream come true! I love cooking Italian food and would consider it a privilege to learn from the local Tuscan women.
My favorite Italian movie is “Under The Tuscan Sun”. I watched it again today. Can’t wait to visit this beautiful country.
My favorite movies are Three Coins in a Fountain and Under the Tuscan Sun. This trip would bring me closer to my roots as a full blooded Italian who is a avid cook.
This is my dream vacation! I saw Only You as a teenager and have always wanted to experience it.
My favorite Italian movie is La Dolce Vita. Spending a week in Tuscany would be a dream come true!
How can you pick just one movie? I just love Italy. My top two have to be Under the Tuscan Sun and Letters to Juliet.
My favorite book is Romancing the Vine by Alan Tardi, a super interesting chef and wine lover we met in the Barolo region a few years ago.
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Only You” with Robert Downey Jr and Marisa Tomei from 1994. Tuscan cooking is simple but very interesting – utilizing local ingredients in season would be a special treat
My favorite movie set in Italy is “Letters to Juliet” starring Vanessa Redgrave, Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan and Franco Nero – the Italian portion starts in Verona but most of it occurs in Tuscany. My family (both sides at the level of grandparents) is from the Lake Como region and my cooking experience is mostly northern Italian.
My favorite mvie set in Italy is: Under the Tuscan Sun
My favorite book about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
Under the Tuscan sun
Favorite movie is Eat Pray Love.
Would be a learned, dream vacation for me!
My favorite book about Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is “Letters to Juliette”.
I loved Under the Tuscan Sun. It was a beautiful movie and the countryside was so inviting. The Italians have such a joy of life. We could all take a lesson from them.
I have had a decades long admiration for Sophia Loren. Her early film, “Two Women,” remains one of the most moving in memory. I have had two visits to Italy, to Frascati and Rome, thence to Tuscany and the Piedmont. I fell in love with the wine, the food and, most of all, the gregarious and generous people. I have a special fascination with the cuisine of the north of Italy, especially of Tuscany. I have had the pleasure of enjoying many fine Tuscan wines and would love to meet the winemakers responsible for them.
“Tea with Mussolini” AND “Under the Tuscan Sun”! It’s a tie! Please don’t make me choose!
I’m a sucker for Dan Brown books, so I’ll have to go with “Angels and Demons”!
I enjoyed the books, “The Four Seasons” and currently “Beautiful Ruins.
Il Postino. A beautiful story, wonderful acting and gorgeous scenery.
We love all things Italian – the wine, culture, food, history; everything.
Were engaged in Rome at the Trevi Fountain and would love to return.
Favorite movie is Cinema Paradiso, and favorite book is My Italian Neighbors
GRAZIE TANTO!!
My favorite movie is “Roman Holiday” with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, for which she won an Oscar.
Kerry Luehring on July 29, 2013
I enjoyed the book “Under the Tuscan Sun” and the movie was fun, but my favorite movie is Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn.
Never been to Italy… It would be the most wonderful experience of a lifetime. Can’t wait to take my Family…
One trip to Italy, I want to return. My favorite movies Italiana? Il Postino & Life is Beautiful. They are two treasures.
I can’t think of any place more beautiful than Italy and have to say my favorite movie/book still has to be “Under the Tuscan Sun” because I can relate to it so much……her love of family, cooking for love one’s and the beauty of Italy.
It has to be La Dolce Vita!
My daughter and I have watched “Only You” with Marissa Tome and Robert Downey Jr. too many times to count. That is when we first fell in love with Italy. Since then we have seen so many great Italian movies. “Under The Tuscan Sun” is one of my all time favorite movies also.
My favorite movie to watch is Under the Tuscan Sun. I can watch it over and over! Been to Tuscany once for a day and have always wanted to go back and join a cooking class at one of the restaurants there. Boy, that would be some experience to talk about!
I just read The Reluctant Tuscan and found it very amusing. I had several others read it with the same reaction. Witty writer.
I loved reading and seeing the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun” and would love to do the same or similar adventure some day. I traveled to Tuscany on a bike tour in 2004 and fell in love with Italy. I hope to join the Palio Adventure next year.
Cheers,
Laura
I was last in Italy in October 2010 and ready to return with my traveling companion, a fellow foodie and wine lover. She’s a better cook than me, so I can use the experience. We could both use another vacation! Thanking you in advance for the opportunity. Ciao!
Ciao Elizabeth,
My all time favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
GG in San Diego
My favorite movie set in Italy is Lake Como: A Month by the Lake..
my favorite movie is Under the Tuscan Sun. I have been to Italy but got sick on the cruise ship so couldn’t go on land to see much. Would love to see and enjoy this fabulous trip
My favorite Movie is La Dolce Vita with Marcello! Ah Marcello! Giancarlo Giannini is a close second. But Marcello’s eyes! Dio mio!
Loved Under The Tuscan Sun and have wanted to go and experience life in Tuscany ever since seeing the movie.
Caio! My favorite is Positano with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. driving along the coast to Positano in Only You. My wife fell in love with and wanted to move to Cortona and live in Diana Lane’s villa in Under The Tuscan Sun. Grazie!
My favorite book about Italy? “Il Talismano” ! ! ! ! Stracciatella, Fish Brodetto Rimini Style, and Tuscan Minestrone,Flounder with Black Butter Sauce, Lobster alla Diavolo, Mullet in Piquant Sauce, Scungilli Marinara, and Shrimp Buongusto, (hungry yet?), Beefsteak alia Pizzaiola, Ossobuco, Saltimbocca, Scaloppine al Marsala, Chicken Cacciatora, Wild Duck with Lentils…it’s best book I’ve ever eaten. I mean, read.
If that doesn’t count, I vow to re-read “The Agony and the Ecstasy” by Irving Stone and re-watch Fellini’s “8 1/2″ and “La Dolce Vita” (Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain!!!) if I’m the lucky duck chosen for the trip. And if I don’t win, I’ll console myself by watching Vittorio De Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief,” Visconti’s “The Leopard,” “Divorce Italian Style” (oooh Marcello Mastroianni…). Haven’t seen Nanni Moretti’s “We Have A Pope” yet, but you’ve put me in the mood so going to do that tonight!
my favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun!
My favorite Italian book is Italian Journey. Wonderful!
My favorite movie is Il Postino
I have a number of favorite films: A Room With A View, Il Postino, La Dolce Vita, Under the Tuscan Sun… to name a few.
My favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) about Italy or my favorite movie set in Italy is “Roman Holiday”.
I have been to cooking school in Thailand and Mexico. Italy here I come!
My favorite movie is “Under the Tuscan Sun”. Watching it always makes me happy and for a couple of precious hours I am transported away into Italy and cooking and romance and lemoncello! I can watch this movie over and over and each time is like the first!
Cinema Paradiso – funny, heart aching look at life, Italian families, coming of age – what more could you ask for??
Every Day In Tuscany (Frances Mayes), I love the recipes she includes, as well.
Under the Tuscan Sun: what a beautiful way to fall in love with Italy!
Rick Steves Travel Italy. Eat, Pray, Love. I was Italian in another life. :))))))
So many wonderful books and movies highlighting “La Doce Vita” but for me Frances Mayes is able to immediately transport me to Italy. My favorite… Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite Italian movie is Under the Tuscan Sun. I also loved Letters to Juliet.
Vivere, Rivere, Amare … Live, Laugh, Love is always centered around cooking and what better place than Italy. What a wonderful trip planned in the Tuscany region where “Letters to Juliet was filmed…a lovely romantic setting.
Ciao for now,
Gloria
My two favorite movies set in Italy are “Only You” with actors Marisa Tomei & Robert Downey Jr. As well as “It Started in Naples” with actors – Sophia Loren & Clark Gable.
Most beautiful scenic backgrounds..
I came to love Irving Stone, and books that leave me with
a better understanding of other places and people, reading the Agony and the Ecstasy when I was 19 years old. I suppose I came to love Italy so much because I’m of Italian descent (I still make my grandmother’s cookies), but also because of a high school trip to Italy, which really opened my eyes. I didn’t want to leave! And, I also love the movie, based on the book by E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, which I’ve seen many times. And, I have to mention Under the Tuscan Sun as well. Both take me back.
Ah Italia!! Te amo!!! So many books and movies, so little time!!!
I LOVE these books, not necessarily in this order: Il Postino, Life is Beautiful, 101 Beautiful Small Towns in Italy, Eat, Pray, Love, Correlli’s Mandolin, A Thousand Days in Venice, Frances of Asissi-A Revolutionary Life, Vanilla Beans and Brodo and all the Stega Nona books!!!
The cooking school is a BIG DREAM of mine!!!
Buona Fortuna !!
My favorite movie set in Italy is “The Shoes of the Fisherman”. It always seemed to haunt me. For a more contemporary movie, I enjoyed “Letters to Juliet”. Whoever wins this contest is a very lucky person. Marlane is a spectacular host!
My favorite book about Italy is “Under The Tuscan Sun”. It was SO visual! I fell in love!
I loved the tourist with angelina jolie. Great twists and plot changes set in Venice mostly with the great backdrop of Italia.
My favorite movie is Roman Holiday, which I saw on the plane coming home from my recent visit to IlCampo….best time ever!!!!!
My favorite movie filmed in Italy is Letters to Juliet.
My favorite book and movie set in Italy are Under the Tuscan Sun. Really!
Really enjoyed reading Italian Journey!
My favorite book set in Italy is I, Claudius by Robert Graves and my favorite movie set in Italy is A Room With A View.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under the Tuscan Sun.
My favorite movie in Italy is A Room with a View.
Dan Brown Inferno is favorite book set in Italy
Roman Holiday! I’m a big Audrey fan.
I love to cook Italian and drink red wine as I sing bad arias. My kitchen becomes a cucina as the noise levels and passions rise. How can one not get immersed in Italian culture as he prepares the recipes and follows the advice of experts such as Mario Batali and Giada De Laurentis. I love to imagine the intimate scenes in small urban and rural Italian settings, where people use culinary art to share their love with friends and family.
One of my favourites is Il Postino- The Postman- a heartful, poignant film made in 1994. A classic!
Off to Tuscany in a few weeks and planning to visit Il CampO Cucina and Marlane..
“Roman Holiday”!!! There is simply nothing quite as lovely as watching Audrey Hepburn fall in love with Italy (and Gregory Peck). Bellissima!
I would love to attend a Food Holiday in Italy!!! I have herd wonderful things about this trip.
Grazie
Mercia
My favorite book about Italy is Eat, Pray, Love.
My favorite movie that takes place in Italy is The Italian Job. No, it isn’t about food, but it does star a young Michael Caine and features a cameo by Sir Noel Coward, who I am guessing knew good food when he ate it.
My favorite book that is set in Italy is The Reluctant Tuscan.
My favorite movie set in Italy is Under The Tuscan Sun. Loved the photgraphy of the countryside.
The last voyage of the Valentino. Mystery and romance in the same book. My favorite movie is Letters for Juliet.
My favorite book is Eat, Pray, Love – also a great movie.
“The Italians” by Luigi Barzini. A fascinating, no-holds-barred portrait of the Italian people, first published in the 1970s.
My favorite movie is “Under The Tuscan Sun”. A great story line with the incredible Tuscan countryside – great food, beautiful scenery and a happy ending with love.
The contest is closed. The winner of the Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany will be announced on Tuesday, August 5, 2013. Thank you for participating.