The definitive guide to Italy’s best wines by foremost expert Ian D’Agata, the director of the International Wine Academy of RomaThe Ecco Guide to the Best Wines of Italy is a simple, user-friendly guide to the top Italian wines — packed with information on purchasing it in America, with tips for visiting wineries ... read more

The Art of Eating WellPRACTICAL RECIPES OF THE ITALIAN CUISINE, PASTRIES SWEETS, FROZEN DELICACIES AND SYRUPSHere is the Table of Contents:PREFACE.PART I. SOUP and PASTA * BROTH OR SOUP STOCK * PASTE. SPAGHETTI, MACARONI ETC.PART II. PASTRY, ... read more

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One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reasons of economy, more attention has been bestowed upon the preparing and cooking of food that is to be at once palatable, nourishing and economical. In the Italian cuisine ... read more

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 Publishers Weekly
Biba Caggiano, Bologna-born and raised in the Emiglia-Romagna region, gives her audience the chance to cook like a native in Biba’s Northern Italian Cooking. The author of six cookbooks and owner and chef of Biba restaurant in Sacramento, Calif., prepares simple to sumptuous meals, from ... read more