Italian Food Guide

Destination: Italy

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The cuisine of Italy changes as you move from region to region (even sometimes, from city to nearby city), with each area having unique recipes, specialties and culinary traditions. Use our Approach Guide to make sure you never miss a must-try dish! For the ultimate Italian culinary guide, pair this guidebook with our Italian Wine Guide.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is so helpful
This is so helpful whether for first time travelers to Italy, foodies, or anyone who wants to understand more about foods of the different regions.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nicely done!
The small book contained a comprehensive vocabulary for foodies in Italy! I especially appreciated the index in the end of the book!

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Message from the author

“Having lived in Italy for five years and knowing how traveling in Italy is inextricably tied to the food, we wanted to create something that was specifically designed for the traveler. So it’s not a recipe book or a culinary story. Rather, it’s a practical guide, designed to be easily (and discretely) referenced while dining out. There’s nothing else like it.“

Jennifer Raezer | Founder & Author, Approach Guides

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Guidebook Description

Food guides for the ultra curious, Approach Guides take an in-depth look at a destination’s local cuisine to help you understand its food culture, navigate menus and discover regional specialties.

Italy offers an unrivaled culinary experience. With a food landscape that changes from region to region, there is always something you have not tried. But the really special thing is when you taste an old favorite that redefines how you think about it from then on: osso bucco from Lombardia, prosciutto di Parma from Emilia-Romagna, mozzarella di bufala from Campania, or even something as everyday as coffee in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is your to discover.

What’s in this guidebook

A region-by-region review. This Approach Guide provides a high-level review of each of Italy’s regions, giving you detailed information on local specialties across all courses: antipasti, primi, secondi and dolci.
Food culture. Italy takes its food seriously and this guidebook helps you navigate the landscape, covering topics such as when not to order a cappuccino and how much to tip.
Italian food basics. To acquaint you with the basics of Italian cuisine, this guidebook offers detailed profiles of Italian salumi and pasta types, as well as a comprehensive Italian-to-English glossary of food-related terms.
Recommendations. To help in your selection process, we point out not-to-be-missed local specialties.
Information the way you like it. As with all of our guides, this book is optimized for intuitive, quick navigation; information is organized into bullet points to make absorption easy; and the most important information is front and center.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How It Works

Restaurants

Eat Slow Food

Coffee Bars

Culinary Basics

Pasta Primer

Salumi Primer

The Regions of Italy

Abruzzo e Molise

Alto Adige (Südtirol) – Trentino

Basilicata

Calabria

Campania

Emilia-Romagna

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lazio

Liguria

Lombardia

Marche

Piemonte

Puglia

Sardegna

Sicilia

Toscana

Umbria

Valle d’Aosta

Veneto

Extras

Common Foods and Terminology

Where It’s From

Make a Suggestion

The Wines of Italy

Continuing Travel in Italy

Our Recommendations

Packing List

About Approach Guides

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