About this title: Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati-pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of shapes it takes and the even greater abundance of names by which it is known. Food scholar Oretta Zanini De Vita traveled to every corner of her native Italy, recording oral histories, delving into long-forgotten family cookbooks, and searching obscure archives to produce this rich and uniquely ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780520255227ISBN:0520255224
Description: New. Pasta has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. Food scholar De Vita travels to every corner of Italy, recording oral histories, delving into long-forgotten family cookbooks, and searching obscure archives to produce this compend... read more
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