Italian Cuisine by Alberto Capatti

Italian Cuisine by Alberto Capatti

This magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.

An exhaustive and detailed investigation and will prove to be a valuable textbook for many foodiesEconomist A scholarly, discursive exploration of techniques, taste, service and technology. Times Literary Supplement With an authoritative command of the subject, Capatti and Montanari trace the changing vocabulary of Italy's earliest cookbooks from classical Latin to vernacular Italian, showing how this shift reflected the increasing significance of passing culinary skill from one generation to the next... This relentlessly academic work has an impressive bibliography of historic Italian sources. -- Mark Knoblauch Booklist Adds a world of history to our understanding, making the case for the existence of a true Italian culinary tradition in spite of the regionality of product... It is an engrossing, richly documented text. Bell'Italia Magazine Italian Cuisine is not simply another history. -- Priscilla Ferguson Journal of Modern History A must-buy if you love Italian cuisine. -- Antonio Carluccio The Daily Express

Alberto Capatti is author of several books on food and eating and editor of the food section of Einaudi's History of Italy. Massimo Montanari teaches medieval history at the University of Bologna and is the preeminent historian of Italian food and eating habits. He is author of A History of European Nutrition and The Magic Pot, and co-editor of Food: A Culinary History (Columbia, 1999).

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ISBN 13	9780231122320
ISBN 10	0231122322
Title	Italian Cuisine
Author	Alberto Capatti
Series	Arts And Traditions Of The Table: Perspectives On Culinary History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	2003-09-17
Number of pages	400
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