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.