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Italy for the Gourmet Traveller by: Fred Plotkin List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.74 You Save: £5.25 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781856266666 ISBN: 1856266664 Label: Kyle Cathie Manufacturer: Kyle Cathie Number Of Pages: 736 Publication Date: May 25, 2006 Publisher: Kyle Cathie Studio: Kyle Cathie Sales Rank: 153078 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Readable and reliableThis book is just simply that: readable and reliable. It's a good read with all sorts of quirky facts thrown in, but the restaurant guide is simply the business. We suspected as much from reviews and recommendations by "Fred" (as we've come to call him) of restaurants we knew from previous stays in Italy, but we used this guide for a recent short break in Umbria and it was right on the money for lunch and dinner, good food, and good restaurants. It's worth its weight in gold (and that's a lot of gold!). Rating: - Great practical guideThis comprehensive guide covers Italy region by region, covering wine, food, reastaurants, markets, specialist shops and more. I found the recommendations for Tuscany excellent on my trip there this year. The tone is a little elitist but the knowledge and enthusiasm of the author cannot be bettered in my opinion. Rating: - A must for food interested travellers to ItalyA really useful guidebook with true gems not found in other books. Have used it in Tuscany, Rome, Naples and the Amalfi coast. Have never let me down and I have numerous times lent it to friends for their trips. A heavy burden to carry with you but I would not go to Italy without it. Rating: - Outstanding (but 2nd edition is near identical to the first)For anyone travelling in Italy with an interest in food and drink, this is an invaluable book. It's laid out as a guide book, indexed by region and town with a list of recommended restaurants, shops, etc. for each. But it's so much more, with the introductory chapters and an overview for each region showing Plotkin's deep and comprehensive understanding of his subject. It's the most insightful guide to Italian cuisine I've come across, and our first edition copy is falling apart after five years of regular use. Sadly, however, the second edition is more or less the same as the first - the "updating" is simply the deletion of a handful of entries that have ceased trading, replaced with others carefully written to fit into the same ... Read More: Rating:  - Wonderful foodWe have used this guide twice on trips to Italy - Umbria and Tuscany mainly. Once for a fortnight and once for a long weekend. On both occasions we booked lunches and dinners at several of the recommended restaurants before leaving the UK, using the descriptions and details in the book to guide our choices. Not in one establishment were we disappointed. The locations do sometimes take some finding ... but the recommendations from ice cream in Orvieto to ravioli in Arezzo were well worth the effort. Too bad we haven't found an equivalent guide to Spain. |
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