Biba's Italy: Favorite Recipes from the Splendid Cities

Here is the very best food from our very favorite citiesthe glorious dining destinations Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, and Venicebrought to life by one of the most authoritative authors in the field. The 100 delicious, simple recipes range from time-honored home-cooking traditions to restaurant classics and even startling innovations by Italys star chefs, and are accompanied by invaluable cooking tips and rich, evocative atmosphere. And each chapter offers travel tips galoreon the best restaurants, wine bars, gelatarie, and marketsas well as eminently useful reference sections on ingredients and menus. Bibas Italy will at turns transport you to a canal-side caff in Venice and a bustling outdoor market in medieval Bologna, to a chic Milanese ristorante and the lively streets in Rome and cozy enoteca in Florence. Then lure you back home to re-create these experiences in your own kitchen.