Name: Rick Steves Italy for Food Lovers
Brand: Rick Steves
SKU: 9781641717625
Price: 32 USD
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ISBN: 9781641717625

By Rick Steves

By Fred Plotkin

On Sale: Feb 2, 2027
Page Count: 448 pages
Publisher: Rick Steves
ISBN-13: 9781641717625

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Whether you’re traveling to Italy or an armchair aficionado, Rick Steves Italy for Food Lovers shows you how to experience the best of Italy through the timeless pleasures of its cuisine. From tantalizing antipasti and saucy pastas to luxurious gelato; from its coffee culture to its dolce vita wine scene, this book will show you how to appreciate good food the way Italians do.

Organized by each of the 20 regions in Italy, readers will find “must-try” lists for food lovers, dishes and wines that are famous in the region, and the top cities and towns to visit to sip, savor, and get the most out of every bite. Sample panzerotti in Puglia, tortelloni in Tuscany, and spaghetti alle vongole in Venice. Don’t skip the sorbetto or gelato for dessert (dolci). And when an Italian offers you a coffee (ti offro un caffè), it’s a gesture of graciousness and friendship. You get into a brief quarrel over who pays and then you politely lose and say grazie.

Filled with beautiful photographs, Rick Steves Italy for Food Lovers also teaches readers food customs and cultures, including types of eateries you’ll find in Italy, the best places to do food shopping, and the multiple courses that makeup a complete Italian meal (and strategies for ordering). Within the book, you’ll find a list of 100 favorite restaurants, handpicked by co-authors Rick Steves and Fred Plotkin.

Rick Steves and co-author Fred Plotkin have devoted decades to traveling through Italy. In this book, they pass along those lessons to you. Appreciate good food the way Italians do with Rick Steves Italy for Food Lovers.

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Rick Steves

Since 1973, Rick Steves has spent about 100 days a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Rick produces a best-selling guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves’ Europe in Edmonds, WA (near Seattle). When not on the road, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice, drug policy reform, and ending hunger. To recharge, Rick plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spends time with his son Andy, daughter Jackie, grandsons Atlas and Dashel, and favorite travel partner Shelley. Find out more about Rick at RickSteves.com and on Facebook.

Connect with Rick:
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Twitter: @RickSteves
Instagram: ricksteveseurope

Having written five definitive books on Italian food and wine, Fred Plotkin is an expert on Italy. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Opera News, Das Opernglas, and Gourmet and lectures on music for leading institutions, including Columbia University, the Juilliard School, and the Smithsonian. Plotkin is a popular guest on the intermission features of the Chevron Texaco-Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, and many shows on National Public Radio. He is also the author of the bestselling and acclaimed Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera, which is the standard text in North American for discovering the glories of opera.

Rick Steves

About the Author

Since 1973, Rick Steves has spent about 100 days a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening.

A New York Times-bestselling author, Rick produces a guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and he organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves’ Europe in Edmonds, WA (near Seattle).

When not on the road, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice, drug policy reform, and ending hunger. What’s the ideal vacation for a professional traveler? For Rick, it’s to play his piano, relax at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spend time with family and friends at home in Edmonds.

Find out more about Rick at RickSteves.com and on Facebook.

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Fred Plotkin

About the Author

Fred Plotkin is the author of the bestselling and acclaimed Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera, which is the standard text in North American for discovering the glories of opera. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Opera News, Das Opernglas, and Gourmet. He lectures on music for leading institutions, including Columbia University, the Juilliard School, and the Smithsonian. Plotkin is a popular guest on the intermission features of the Chevron Texaco-Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, and many shows on National Public Radio. An expert on Italy, he has written five definitive books on Italian food and wine.

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