"Italy is a beautiful but complicated place, not so much a country as a
collection of cultures and cuisines. Matt Goulding expertly navigates
it's wonders and eccentricities with wisdom and great passion." -Anthony
Bourdain
"Goulding is pioneering a new type of writing about food." -Financial
Times
This is not a cookbook. This is something more: a travelogue, a
patient investigation of Italy's cuisine, a loving profile of the
everyday heroes who bring Italy to the table. Pasta, Pane, Vino is the
latest edition of the genre-bending Roads & Kingdoms style pioneered
under Anthony Bourdain's imprint in Rice, Noodle, Fish ( 2016 Travel
Book of the Year, Society of American Travel Writers ) and Grape,
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 world's great wine
regions.
Goulding's writing has never been better, in complete harmony with the
book's innovative design and the more than 200 lush color photographs
that introduce the chefs, shepherds, fisherman, farmers, grandmas, and
guardians who power this country's 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, Vino
captures the breathtaking diversity of Italian regional food culture.
