Exciting Food for Southern Types (Penguin Great Food)
Pellegrino Artusi(1820-1911) was an Italian businessman and  gastronome. His working life as a silk merchant allowed him to acquire  considerable wealth, which he used to fund his passions: literature and  food. He self-published the now famous Italian cookbookLa scienza  in cucina e l'arte di mangiare bene(The Science of Cooking and  the Art of Eating Well) in 1891 and sold over 200,000 copies before  his death. Writing only two decades after the unification of Italy,  Artusi was the first to include recipes from all regions of Italy in a  single cookbook and helped establish a national Italian identity.