Let’s Eat in Italy! A book for Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine

From the same team that created Let’s Eat France! comes this celebration of Italian food in the form of an oversized, obsessively comprehensive visual feast of a book. With a mix of gastronomy, food science, history, cultural references, legends, traditions, charts, photos, and illustrations, each of the book’s 400 pages is a blend of cuisine and culture. Let’s Eat Italy! is an alluring and fun journey into Italian cuisine.

Readers will find recipes for classic Italian dishes spanning every region, like pappa al pomodoro, Bolognese, lerisi e bisi, risotto, focaccia, frittata, and more, accompanied by delightfully entertaining photos and information on the food’s origins and modern uses. There’s an ode to panettone, the traditional Christmas sweet treat. A dedication to the magic of basil, Italy’s “royal” herb. A love affair between pasta and potatoes that examines the many dishes that marry these two starches in delicious harmony. And, of course, pasta information abounds; it ��s featured in guides like this one on the ultimate noodle, spaghetti, which includes all the different shapes, the best spaghetti artisans in Italy, and the flour mills and semolina farmers. Real Italians speak espresso, so readers will delight in the poster-like graphic that depicts 27 different types of espresso drinks. Cooking tips include cooking beans in a bottle of Chianti ��a trick Tuscan nonnas have been using for centuries in the dish known as fagioli al fiasco. Discover how contemporary food trends (like the oh-so-hip orange wine, which Italians have been drinking for nearly 8,000 years) have their roots in Italy. But the influence of Italian food doesn’t stop at the table – an entire broadcast looks at the favorite dishes of the Italian mafia as seen in Hollywood, through the lenses of Scorsese, Leone and Coppola. Let’s Eat Italy! is a splendid exploration of this beloved cuisine, from pizza to gelato, from Milan to Sicily, and from the many cuisines of Italy to yours.
Let’s Eat Italy! Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine