The Good Food Of Italy: Region By Region
Roden is the author of several cookbooks on Mediterranean cuisines; her guide to Italian regional cooking grew out of a London Sunday Times series. There are other good cookbooks in this area, but Roden includes a number of unusual dishes and creates as much a travel book as a recipe collection. Lengthy introductions to each region include historical background and discussions of local ingredients, including wines; headnotes provide more details about the provenance of individual recipes. Recommended. BOMC alternate.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.