The Park Hotel ai Cappuccini is one of the hotels where Tauck guests will stay on the A Week In ...Tuscany and Umbria itinerary. Photo Credit: Tauck Tauck will have author Frances Mayes as a special ...

Give credit to Frances Mayes for igniting Americans’ long-held love affair with Tuscany. In 1996, she wrote a memoir about how she famously took charge of her future, abandoning her life as a Bay Area ...

“Pasta’s cardinal virtue? Speed!” writes Frances Mayes in her newest book, Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun. “Many tasty dinners can be prepared in the time it takes ...

CORTONA, Italy -- It's a hot, steamy and sun-soaked day in August, and Frances Mayes is precisely where you think you'd find her: under Tuscany's sun, lounging in the villa and lifestyle she made so ...

In her most recent Tuscan tour, Mayes conducts readers through the gentle and sometimes violent and disruptive undulations of the seasons from winter to summer in her Tuscan home of Bramasole. In this ...