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Encyclopedia of Pasta

Encyclopedia of Pasta( )
Author: Zanini De Vita, Oretta
Translator: Fant, Maureen
Foreword by: Field, Carol
Series title:California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-25522-7
Publication Date:Oct 2009
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $45.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:400
Detailed Subjects: Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Pasta
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.4 Inches
Book Weight:1.6 Pounds
Author Biography
Zanini De Vita, Oretta. (Author)
Carol Field was born Carol Helen Hart in Oakland, California on March 27, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Wellesley College in 1961. She worked for a time as a librarian in the San Francisco public library system and then with a colleague opened Minerva's Owl, a bookstore, in 1962. She helped run the store for five years and then found work as a buyer for Scott Martin Books. She contributed articles to several magazines including City magazine, Gourmet, and Bon Appétit. After working as an editor at New West and San Francisco magazines, she wrote The Hill Towns of Italy, which was published in 1982.

Her first cookbook, The Italian Baker, was published in 1985. Her other cookbooks included Celebrating Italy, Italy in Small Bites, Nonna's Kitchen: Traditional Recipes and Culture from Italian Grandmothers, and Focaccia: Simple Breads from the Italian Oven. She also wrote a novel entitled Mangoes and Quince. In 2004, she was made a Knight in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She died from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2017 at the age of 76.

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