Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany - among sun-weathered peasants, and mammas serving pasta under the pergola. Yet this nostalgic fantasy has little to do with the real history of Italian cuisine.For a thousand years, Italys cities have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. So Italian food is city food, and telling its story means telling the story of the Italians as a people of city dwellers. In DELIZIA! the author of the acclaimed COSA NOSTRA takes a revelatory historical journey through the flavours of Italys cities. From the bustle of Medieval Milan, to the bombast of Fascist Rome; from the pleasure gardens of Renaissance Ferrara, to the putrid alleyways of nineteenth-century Naples. In rich slices of urban life, DELIZIA! shows how violence and intrigue, as well as taste and creativity, combined to make the worlds favourite cuisine.
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Recensione:
'Mouthwatering...like lunch in the green hills above Lake Como, or dinner at the horseshoe bays of Sardinia, Dickie's book is sheer pleasure.' --Financial Times
'A remarkable, vivid story' --Observer
'Informs as well as enlightens...a clever and provoking account of Italy's history' --Guardian
Descrizione del libro:
Award-winning new history of Italy told through its food, by the author of the worldwide bestseller COSA NOSTRA
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- EditoreCoronet
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 0340896418
- ISBN 13 9780340896419
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine416
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