Crab Spaghetti with Lemon + Basil Oil - No. 349

Learning to live another kind of life, the Tuscan Sun, and Frances Mayes

IN ATHENS, GEORGIA, HOME OF the University of Georgia, I recently visited the university’s special collections library to browse through old diaries and hopefully stumble upon a recipe telling an interesting story.

But instead, I spotted a box of random papers belonging to Frances Mayes, native of Fitzgerald, Georgia, and bestselling author of Under the …