Pasta, Pane, Vino : Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture

Italy is a beautiful but complicated place, not so much a country as a collection of cultures and cuisines. Matt Goulding expertly navigates its wonders and eccentricities with wisdom and great passion. -Anthony Bourdain"e;Goulding is pioneering a new type of writing about food."e; -Financial TimesThis is not a cookbook.This is something more: a travelogue, a patient investigation of Italys cuisine, a loving profile of the everyday heroes who bring Italy to the table.Pasta, Pane, Vinoisthe latest edition of the genre-bending Roads Kingdoms style pioneered under Anthony Bourdains imprint inRice, Noodle, Fish( 2016 Travel Book of the Year, Society of American Travel Writers )andGrape, Olive, Pig( 2017 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing).Town by town, bite by bite, author Matt Goulding brings Italy to life through intimate portraits of its food culture and the people pushing it in new directions: Three globe-trotting brothers who became the mozzarella kings of Puglia; the pizza police of Naples and the innovative pies that stay one step ahead of the rules; the Barolo Boys who turned the hilly Piedmont into one of the worlds great wine regions.Gouldings writing has never been better, in complete harmony with the book's innovative design and the more than200 lush color photographs that introduce the chefs, shepherds, fisherman, farmers, grandmas, and guardians who power this countrys extraordinary culinary traditions. From the pasta temples of Rome to the multicultural markets of Sicily to the family-run, fish-driven trattorias of Lake Como,Pasta, Pane, Vinocaptures the breathtaking diversity of Italian regional food culture.