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Eating & Drinking in Italy: Italian Menu Translator and Restaurant Guide, Fourth Edition
The most complete Italian-language menu translator available, plus great restaurant picks for Italy’s major cities and towns!
It isn’t the chicken you thought you ordered. It’s a plate of cold brains. Nor is it the delectable slices of beef braised in red wine; those are veal kidneys. These are the pitfalls of ordering off a menu in a foreign country. To prevent just such accidents, we give you Andy Herbach’s Eating & Drinking in Italy now in its 8th revised edition, with an additional 32 pages of restaurant reviews and even more dining terms! This guide offers the most complete Italian-language menu translator available, plus great restaurant picks for Italy’s major cities and towns! Menus written in a foreign language are confusing and filled with slang and idioms. Uccelli scappatti are skewered sausages grilled with sage, but the word means “escaped birds.” Stinco is braised veal or pork shank. Nothing can make a trip more enjoyable and rewarding than being able to order a great meal without having an anxiety attack. The new 8th edition of Eating & Drinking in Italy
• A great (and down-to-earth) restaurant guide
• A comprehensive Italian-menu translator
• Advice on restaurant etiquette
• A short pronunciation guide
• Opinions on everything food-related, from what to eat to where to get it…
It isn’t the chicken you thought you ordered. It’s a plate of cold brains. Nor is it the delectable slices of beef braised in red wine; those are veal kidneys. These are the pitfalls of ordering off a menu in a foreign country. To prevent just such accidents, we give you Andy Herbach’s Eating & Drinking in Italy now in its 8th revised edition, with an additional 32 pages of restaurant reviews and even more dining terms! This guide offers the most complete Italian-language menu translator available, plus great restaurant picks for Italy’s major cities and towns! Menus written in a foreign language are confusing and filled with slang and idioms. Uccelli scappatti are skewered sausages grilled with sage, but the word means “escaped birds.” Stinco is braised veal or pork shank. Nothing can make a trip more enjoyable and rewarding than being able to order a great meal without having an anxiety attack. The new 8th edition of Eating & Drinking in Italy
• A great (and down-to-earth) restaurant guide
• A comprehensive Italian-menu translator
• Advice on restaurant etiquette
• A short pronunciation guide
• Opinions on everything food-related, from what to eat to where to get it…
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2004
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About the author
Andy Herbach
185 books1 followerAndy Herbach is the author of the popular Eating & Drinking series of menu translators and restaurant guides, as well as the Made Easy travel guides covering major cities and regions across Europe and the U.S. A frequent traveler and food enthusiast, he also writes the Wining & Dining guides. Andy is a lawyer and lives in Palm Springs, California.
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January 21, 2009
This book is perfect! Perfect in size (small), perfect in content (simple). Funny that it's written by a lawyer from Milwaukee :)
December 31, 2019
This is the third pocket menu guide I've purchased by this author and I must say it is quite handy. My Italian language comprehension is pretty good when it comes to identifying food (thanks to my Italian heritage and ancestors), but it pays to have something like this when traveling. Small and discreet and covers a lot of territory. These are now a regular part of my library and persistent travel supply.
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