Eating and Drinking in Italy: Italian Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide, Second Edition

You`re in Italy and you think you know Italian food. Would you eat `stinco`? Menus in a foreign language are confusing and filled with slang and idioms. This guide will help you find your way around a menu written in Italian. It gives you the freedom to enter places you might never have before and order dinner without shouting, pointing or hand waving. This guide was created for the traveler who wants to enjoy, appreciate and experience authentic cuisine and know what he or she is ordering. More than a mere dictionary, this pocket-sized book contains and an up-to-date list of restaurants, gelateria, food and wine stores and food markets; advice on tipping and restaurant etiquette; tips on budget dining; and, the heart of the book, translation of more than 2,500 menu items in an annotated, easy-to-use format. Every page contains informative and helpful `handwritten` notes and illustrations. This guide includes:

•Places of interest in Italy and Italian-speaking Switzerland, featuring regional dining specialties and customs. •A list of restaurants, trattoria, osteria, wine shops, gelato shops, pastry shops and more. •English-to-Italian - Some familiar English food and food-related words and phrases.Italian-to-English - Translation of over 2,500 words and phrases in an annotated, easy-to-use format. •Pronunciation Guide.

Authors Andy Herbach and Michael Dillon have traveled the world sampling a variety of cuisines, taking notes as they have wined and dined. They live in Milwaukee and have similar guides for Paris, and Spanish-speaking countries. Andy is a lawyer and Michael owns a graphic design company.