CASANOVALTA--A Tuscan Farmhouse

<p>CASANOVALTA is a rich and lyrical memoir set in mid 20th-century Tuscany where former Hollywood actress Anita Eubank and her husband famed architect Craig Ellwood take on the restoration of a crumbling Renaissance-era stone farmhouse.</p><p></p><p>Drawn from the pages of her personal journal Anita recounts enduring a freezing winter cultural clashes and the unexpected joys of rural Italian life. Through art photographs recipes and evocative storytelling she captures the humor struggle and deep transformation sparked by a house-and a land-that demanded everything.</p><p></p><p>A love story a creative journey and a testament to resilience CASANOVALTA invites you into a timeless world where the past and present intertwine.</p><p></p><p>Anita Eubank is the most useful architectural historian I've ever met! A history like this had to be written so that we could all read and experience it ourselves. One of the best experiences of my life!</p><p>- Roberto Zancan professor (HEAD-Genève) Haute école d'art et de design-University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland</p><p>The glowingly illustrated recipes are written as though we've just taken a walk with the author in the Tuscan hills and are now in her kitchen turning the bounty into goodness.</p><p>-Janet Sternburg author of <em>White Matter A Memoir of Family and Medicine</em>; fine art photographer for <em>Looking at Mexico Mexico Looks Back</em></p>