Word: tuscans
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...neighbors in the posh Tuscan resort of Forte dei Marmi, Tokhtakhounov is a courteous, quiet gent often surrounded by gorgeous cars and fast women. To the Italian finance police and the American FBI, which have been tailing him for at least a year, he is a suspect in drug dealing, arms trafficking and money laundering--an international sleaze king with influential friends among Russian celebrities and Kremlin politicos...
Finding a charming place to stay in Tuscany has long posed a choice between a castle in the countryside or a hotel in a historic city. But to get closer to the fruits of the Tuscan earth, a visitor can now head straight to the farm. Agriturismo lodgings--long popular among Italian vacationers--are adding luxury accommodations and attracting upscale foreign visitors...
...fall victim to friendly fire. He was very cautious as we drove along the track. We drove without headlights - by far the most dangerous part of the operation, and Khademudin even covered the luminous clock with his scarf. Then a moonlit walk through the village along a narrow Tuscan hill-town lane, (many of the mud houses are three story) to a house with the best views. We clambered up the mud stairs, and just before we reached the top Khademudin ordered "lamps...
...when you're legendary restaurateur ALICE WATERS, 57, of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and celebrating your 30th anniversary in business. Waters revolutionized the American way of eating with her emphasis on fresh, organically grown produce and unfussily prepared meat and fish with a Cali-Tuscan twist. If not for Waters, we'd still be wandering in that culinary wilderness between Salisbury steak TV dinners and French foo-foo food smothered in cream. Waters' anniversary meal cost $500 a head and featured lamb, spit roasted over oak and cherrywood fires, served with sauteed chanterelles, and mulberry ice cream cones...
...medieval Tuscan village of Sutri (pop. about 5,000) is inhabited, says Rips, by sundry eccentrics, among them a blind bootmaker, an old-timer known to possess supernatural powers in the laying of hands on ailing tractor engines and an illiterate postman. In this slight travel memoir, Rips, a displaced Nebraskan, limns the local characters, as well as the Etruscan culture that bred them. These drolleries are best digested over an espresso at a Sutri cafe; failing that, any Starbucks will...