Ebook: Italian cuisine: a cultural history

This magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.;Introduction: Identity as Exchange -- Italy: A Physical and Mental Space -- The Italian Way of Eating -- The Formation of Taste -- The Sequence of Dishes -- Communicating Food: The Recipe Collection -- The Vocabulary of Food -- The Cook, the Innkeeper, and the Woman of the House -- Science and Technology in the Kitchen -- Toward a History of the Appetite.