I was wondering if there is any online or Kindle version of regional food and wine I should be sure to try when I am traveling to Italy. I will be in Venice, Verona, Bolzano, Cinque Terra, Lucca, Siena, and Rome.
thanks
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I am not sure what you are asking for exactly, but there are lots of regional cookbooks you can peruse before travel, some of which are likely available online.
I always use the Slow Food guide, but this is more for restaurants: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/osterie-ditalia-2019/id1444757219
There is a slim little book called the Marling Menu-Master that I have found low-tech but useful!
Posted by
martinez, ca, usa
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hey hey arne
what are you asking? food to eat wine to taste, restaurants in these towns, cookbooks to buy in the area, tours to do in those towns.
like valadelphia says look up a food and wine guide, do research of what the area know for, save your findings. when you get there order it.
aloha
Posted by
seattle
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A good book to review before your trip is Italy for The Gourmet Traveler by Fred Plotkin. It gives great descriptions of the primary foods and wines for each Italian state. It also gives recommendations for each of your destinations. The book is too heavy to travel with, but hopefully your library has a copy to check out.
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seattle
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A small book I take to Italy is “Eating and Drinking in Italy” by Andy Herbach. It also explains regional specialties. It gives restaurant suggestions, but I mainly use the translation sections so I can decipher menus. It comes in a Kindle version.
Posted by
Seattle
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Italy has twenty provinces, at least in the cultural-culinary-vinous sense*. Each has its own vinous and culinary traditions. Maybe what you should do is look for classic dishes from the part of Italy you are in, and drink types of wine made in the province you are in that locals suggest are good accompaniments for the food you are eating, or turn it inside out and find local wines you want to drink, and ask locals what local dishes go well with them.
There you go. No books. No studying. Plenty of conversations.
*on the Rick Steves forums, I don't worry about getting flamed for that assertion. It's approximately true.
Also, in Verona we had a legendary delicious meal that did not cost an eye from the head (how Italians say an arm and a leg). Look up Mondo d'Oro.