How We Fell In Love With Italian Food Hardcover English by Diego Zancani - 43888
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| Publisher | Bodleian Library |
| ISBN 13 | 9781851245123 |
| ISBN 10 | 185124512X |
| Book Description | Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: today, it's hard to imagine any supermarket without these items. But how did these foods - and many more Italian ingredients - become so widespread and popular? This book maps the extraordinary progress of Italian food, from the legacy of the Roman invasion to its current, ever-increasing popularity. Using medieval manuscripts it traces Italian recipes in Britain back as early as the thirteenth century, and through travel diaries it explores encounters with Italian food and its influence back home. The book also shows how Italian immigrants - from ice-cream sellers and grocers to chefs and restaurateurs - had a transformative influence on our cuisine, and how Italian food was championed at pivotal moments by pioneering cooks such as Elizabeth David, Anna Del Conte, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers and Jamie Oliver. With mouth-watering illustrations from the archives of the Bodleian Library and elsewhere, this book also includes Italian regional recipes that have come down to us through the centuries. It celebrates the enduring international appeal of Italian restaurants and the increasingly popular British take on Italian cooking and the Mediterranean diet. |
| Editorial Review | This is a book both for the historian and for the cook. Beautifully illustrated and interspersed with some classic recipes, it relates the conquest of Great Britain by Italian food and cooking from Roman times to these days. It is a book after my own heart.' -- Anna del Conte 'A work both academically rigorous and impassioned, it had me heading straight to the kitchen.' -- Joe Trivelli 'This remarkable book...looks at the influence of Italian food since the first century AD. ... A triumph.' * Country Life * 'Hugely enjoyable, informative - and culturally timely - How We Fell in Love with Italian Food is part-history, part-etymology, part-cookbook and part-memoir. ... beautifully illustrated throughout ... this is sprezzatura of the highest order.' * The Balliol College Annual Record 2019 * 'A genuine appreciation of Italian food, authentic recipes from family and friends punctuate the chapters along with fascinating vintage imagery, and it's all written in a lively, informative style. Not to be missed!' * Italia Magazine * 'The book is full of such tempting little incentives to try things for oneself; and Professor Zancani is a most engaging cicerone.' * Association of Pensioners of The University of Oxford Newsletter * |
| About the Author | Diego Zancani is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College and Emeritus Professor, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Diego Zancani |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 43888 |
| Number of Pages | 256 |
How We Fell In Love With Italian Food Hardcover English by Diego Zancani - 43888
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