Delizia!

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• A good feed

  Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and their Food, by John Dickie 240pp, Sceptre, £20 A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of Spain, by Paul Richardson 310pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 Time was a traveller's holdall would be crammed with Baedekers and ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Bolognese to that

  Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food by John Dickie Hodder & Stoughton £20, pp231 For us in the 21st century, Italian food is the cuisine of affluence. As John Dickie, reader in Italian Studies at UCL points out: 'Italy has become ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Easy-to-read history of Italian food without too much detail. E.g. Susan Pinkard's book about the history of French food called "a Revolution in Taste" provides more detail in the same number of pages. The two books actually make a good combination.

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  Hermes said on Aug 11, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  This book is as informative as you can get about Italian food baced up with deep histroical background. It can sometimes read like a history book, which undermined some of the culinary pleasure, but the vast amounts of historical facts and the clever style in which it was retold is hard to fault.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0743277996
• ISBN-13: 9780743277990
• Publisher: Free Press
• Pub date: Jan 08, 2008
• Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook

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