Italian Regional Cooking Dictionary

8,500 definitions from A to Z so you never fail to decipher a menu or a

recipe.

The Italian Regional Cooking Dictionary includes detailed descriptions

of typical foods, products, vegetables, animal breeds, salumi, cheeses,

breads, kitchen tools and cooking techniques. It's an invaluable tool to

get to know the vast landscape of terms that can be found in the menus

of Italian taverns and restaurants, in cookbooks and food magazines -- a

dictionary at the reach of your pocket that will introduce you to the

plentiful Italian heritage of food and wine. Moreover, gorgeous color

drawings tell the story of pasta shapes and kitchen tools.