Let's Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine

Let's Eat Italy! is a comprehensive and visually stunning book that delves into the diverse and delicious world of Italian food, offering recipes, information, and cultural insights.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2021
Publisher: Artisan

From the same team that brought you Let's Eat France! comes this lavish celebration of Italian cuisine in the form of an oversized, meticulously comprehensive, visually stunning book.

With a blend of gastronomy, food science, history, cultural references, legends, lore, charts, graphs, photos, and illustrations, every one of the 400 pages in Let's Eat Italy! is an enticing and amusing journey into Italian food. Readers will find recipes for classic Italian dishes from all regions, such as pappa al pomodoro, Bolognese, risi e bisi, risotto, focaccia, frittata, and so much more, all accompanied by photos and delightfully entertaining information on the origins and modern uses of the foods. There's an ode to the panettone, the traditional Christmas sweet delight. A dedication to the magic of basil, Italy's royal herb. A love story between pasta and potatoes that examines the many dishes that marry these two starches in delicious harmony. And, of course, pasta information aplenty; it's featured in guides like that on the ultimate noodle, spaghetti, which includes all the different forms, the top spaghetti artisans in Italy, and the semolina flour mills and farmers.

True Italians speak espresso, so readers will delight in the poster-like graphic that depicts 27 different types of espresso drinks. Tips for the kitchen include cooking beans in a chianti bottle, a trick Tuscan nonnas have been using for ages in the dish known as fagioli al fiasco.

Learn how contemporary food trends (like the oh-so-hip orange wine, which Italians have been drinking for nearly 8,000 years) trace their roots to Italy. But the influence of Italian food doesn't stop at the table; an entire spread looks at the Italian Mafia's favorite dishes as seen in Holly.

Weight: 2390g
Dimension: 256 x 337 x 42 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781648290596