Gathers recipes from Italy's varied regional cooking traditons, encompassing such favorites as lasagna primavera, pesto, minestrone soup, and other fish, pasta, pizza, meat, poultry, vegetable, and rice dishes
Short of Il Talismano della Felicita, Diane Seed's Italian cookbooks are the best there are, and of those, this is the most indispensable (though the saltimbocca recipe in her Roman cookbook makes it valuable, too.)