Eating in Italy: A Traveler's Guide to the Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern Italy - Softcover

Willinger, Faith Heller; Echtermeyer, Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688068839 ISBN 13: 9780688068837

Publisher: Hearst Books, 1989

Synopsis

Describes the menu, wine list, and specialties of the best restaurants in each region of northern Italy

About this title

Review:

Grab this book and your forchetta (fork) and head to Italy for a tantalizing tour of tastes. Faith Heller Willinger is an American living in Italy who has devoted her taste buds to sampling and reporting on the best Italian kitchens have to offer. If you think Italian food equals pizza and spaghetti, the variety of offerings found in the 11 northern regions explored in this book will astound you. Each regional section begins with helpful explanations of Italian dishes from local menus. Next, the wine and food specialties are temptingly presented with interesting tidbits about production methods and historical origins. For example, grissini, yard-long breadsticks of the Piemonte region, were first made in 1668, when "the Savoia court doctor, Don Baldo Pecchio, had the court baker whip up some crunchy, thin and easily digestible breadsticks for the sickly Prince Vittorio Amadeo II, who suffered from 'intestinal fevers.'" Each section is finished off with a listing of restaurants and inns, organized by city. If you aren't sated yet, Eating in Italy also provides gelato flavors, a key to Italian opening and closing hours, types of pasta, wine terminology, and a food glossary.

About the Author:

Faith Heller Willinger is a contributing editor for Gourmet magazine and Epicurious, the Conde Nast Internet food site. She also runs a personalized travel service. She lives in Florence, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hearst Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0688068839
• ISBN 13: 9780688068837
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286