From Publishers Weekly
In this revelatory history of gourmet Italy from antiquity to today, Dickie (Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia), examines the centuries of religious, political and sociological events that effectively thrust Italian food into today’s global limelight. Though it begins with the requisite gnocchi, ... read more

From Booklist
The latest volume in the Art and Traditions of the Table series focuses on the cultural history of Italian cooking. 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 ... read more