The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

ISBN-13: 9780195387100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 672 str.

Gillian Riley

Opis

Universally acclaimed by the critics, and now available for the first time in paperback, here is an inspiring, wide-ranging, AZ guide to one of the world's best-loved cuisines. Designed for cooks and consumers alike, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food covers all aspects of the history and culture of Italian gastronomy, from dishes, ingredients, and delicacies to cooking methods and implements, regional specialties, the universal appeal of Italian cuisine, influences from outside Italy, and much more.
Gillian Riley here celebrates a heritage of amazing richness and delight. She brings equal measures of enthusiasm and expertise to her writing, and her entries read like mini-essays, laced with wit and gastronomical erudition, marked throughout by descriptive brilliance, and entirely free of the pompous tone that afflicts so much writing about food. The Companion is attentive to both tradition and innovation in Italian cooking, and covers an extraordinary range of information.
For anyone with a hunger to learn more about the history, culture and variety of Italian cuisine, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food offers endless satisfactions.

Recenzje

Both useful and beautiful.

O autorze

Gillian Riley is a food historian and freelance typographer. She has written many books on food in art such as Renaissance Recipes, Impressionistic Picnics and A Feast for the Eyes, the National Gallery Cookbook. Ms. Riley contributes regularly to the Oxford Food Symposium.