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Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History

✍️ Capatti, Alberto
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🏛 Columbia University Press 📅 2003 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231122320
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📝 Description: Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History

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.

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Alberto Capatti's Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History offers a magnificent, thematically organized look at the traditions shaping the Italian peninsula's food culture. It succeeds admirably as a rich historical reference, beautifully illustrated to complement its scholarly ambitions. However, casual home cooks looking strictly for quick weeknight recipes, step-by-step cooking instructions, or a traditional user-friendly cookbook will likely find this text too academic and text-heavy for their immediate kitchen needs. It suits patient readers and food historians far better than hurried culinary beginners.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

Alberto Capatti's Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History offers a magnificent, thematically organized look at the traditions shaping the Italian peninsula's food culture. It succeeds admirably as a rich historical reference, beautifully illustrated to complement its scholarly ambitions. However, casual home cooks looking strictly for quick weeknight recipes, step-by-step cooking instructions, or a traditional user-friendly cookbook will likely find this text too academic and text-heavy for their immediate kitchen needs. It suits patient readers and food historians far better than hurried culinary beginners.

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