Reviews
Faith Willinger's knowledge about Italy is all encompassing and her passion for its food and culture is contagious. In Adventures of An Italian Food Lover , Faith eloquently describes the beautiful regional foods that continue to be made, as they have for generations, with local, organic ingredients. This is an important book. - Alice Waters , Chez Panisse Restaurant Faith is usually the first with the scoop on anything new in the entire boot, and her love of Italians, Italian ingredients and Italian cooks are mellifluously evident in Adventures of an Italian Food Lover . She has a unique understanding of the regionally specific foods that make Italy the most delicious place on the planet, and this tome of magnificent recipes and tales from "foodies" in the true cook's Italy proves it's not necessary to compromise authentic flavors to American tastes. Faith has an intuitive sense of the truly delicious, and as always, her inside knowledge is shared with joy and delightful prose. - Mario Batali Faith Willinger's great taste and her instinct for authenticity puts her in a class with Elizabeth David and Claudia Roden, and, just as important, she has the same easy, confident, approach to life in the kitchen. Adventures of an Italian Food Lover is a gift to my waiting pots and pans. - Jane Kramer , The New Yorker, Faith Willinger's knowledge about Italy is all encompassing and her passion for its food and culture is contagious. InAdventures of An Italian Food Lover, Faith eloquently describes the beautiful regional foods that continue to be made, as they have for generations, with local, organic ingredients. This is an important book. -Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Restaurant Faith is usually the first with the scoop on anything new in the entire boot, and her love of Italians, Italian ingredients and Italian cooks are mellifluously evident inAdventures of an Italian Food Lover.She has a unique understanding of the regionally specific foods that make Italy the most delicious place on the planet, and this tome of magnificent recipes and tales from "foodies" in the true cook's Italy proves it's not necessary to compromise authentic flavors to American tastes. Faith has an intuitive sense of the truly delicious, and as always, her inside knowledge is shared with joy and delightful prose. -Mario Batali Faith Willinger's great taste and her instinct for authenticity puts her in a class with Elizabeth David and Claudia Roden, and, just as important, she has the same easy, confident, approach to life in the kitchen.Adventures of an Italian Food Loveris a gift to my waiting pots and pans. -Jane Kramer,The New Yorker, Faith Willinger's knowledge about Italy is all encompassing and her passion for its food and culture is contagious. In "Adventures of An Italian Food Lover," Faith eloquently describes the beautiful regional foods that continue to be made, as they have for generations, with local, organic ingredients. This is an important book. - Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Restaurant Faith is usually the first with the scoop on anything new in the entire boot, and her love of Italians, Italian ingredients and Italian cooks are mellifluously evident in "Adventures of an Italian Food Lover," She has a unique understanding of the regionally specific foods that make Italy the most delicious place on the planet, and this tome of magnificent recipes and tales from "foodies" in the true cook's Italy proves it's not necessary to compromise authentic flavors to American tastes. Faith has an intuitive sense of the truly delicious, and as always, her inside knowledge is shared with joy and delightful prose. - Mario Batali Faith Willinger's great taste and her instinct for authenticity puts her in a class with Elizabeth David and Claudia Roden, and, just as important, she has the same easy, confident, approach to life in the kitchen. "Adventures of an Italian Food Lover" is a gift to my waiting pots and pans. - Jane Kramer, "The New Yorker"
