Florence - Traditional recipes and gastronomic culture

Florence ¿ City gourmet guides is a new book which illustrates the richness and variety of florentine gastronomy. It has an elegant binding, a high quality printing on ivory paper and an unusual and refined size. The text moves from history of florentine gastronomy, its traditions and specialties, from the banquets of Etruscans and Romans, to the simple and genuine taste of popular recipies of the beginning of the last century, up to the glorious ¿florentine t-bone steak¿.
The chapters are: History, Let nothing go to waste, Tasty savouries, Soup and first courses, Meat cuts, scraps and offal, Seafood in the pan, In field and garden, Eggs, omelettes and savory pies, Seasonings and flavourings, Festive foods, Simple but not easy, Useful things to know. The book is a real invitation to know better florentine taste and flavour, it is replete with around 100 recepies, fully illustrated in colour, it has a dictionary of florentine cuisine and several literary quotations which make it a precious and unique book.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Salemi
• Publisher: Nardini Editore
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2013
• EAN: 9788840449050
• ISBN: 978-88-404-4905-0
• No. of pages: 118
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 249 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 232 g
• Series: City Gourmet Guides; City Gourmet Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Travel > Hotel and restaurant guides > Europe