Andreas Viestad

‘Andreas Viestad has written a fascinating, thought-provoking and funny book about the importance of food in history. He zips seamlessly between the smells and flavors of a meal in a restaurant in Rome and the long lines of history.’ — Alice Waters

Andreas Viestad is a food writer, TV chef, restaurateur and food activist. He is the longtime host of New Scandinavian Cooking and a former columnist of the Washington Post. In addition to Dinner in Rome, he is the author of Kitchen of Light and Where Flavor was Born and lives between Oslo and Cape Town.

He is the longtime host of New Scandinavian Cooking, airing on public television in the US and in more than 70 other countries, a former columnist for Washington post. In his native Norway he is the founder of Geitmyra Culinary Center for Children, a non-profit running educational programmes in several Norwegian cities.

https://andreasviestad.com

‘Dinner in Rome is, like a good carbonara, an effortless combination of ingredients that come together to make the perfect dish . . . filled with humour, as well as a deep appreciation of the subject . . . the book lives up to expectations: every section is as tasty as promised, every chapter a joyful mouthful of information, bursting in surprising and juicy ways . . . utterly scrumptious.’ — GetHistory.com

‘As enchanting as it is fascinating: Andreas Viestad has a calm gift for evocative scene-setting, story-telling and, crucially, for making and exploring connections that bring everything illuminatingly to life.’ — Nigella Lawson