Italy for Dinner

It is a book with twenty quick and simple regional recipes that sum up the variety, inventiveness, flavours and smells of the cooking in Italy, dressed with advice about how to discover the places where the recipes originated. The regional wine to drink, two spoons of the music by local composers to cheer the preparation of the dishes, a bite of the films set in the same region to round off the evening with friends and a pinch of literature to finish off the night in style.

About the Author

Lucia Toso born and raised in Venice, Italy, has dedicated herself to cultural promotion. She has collaborated with Venice Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, and has served as President of Amici del Circuito Cinema, which she co-founded in 1986. She is a certified guide in Venice State Museums and private collections, and she has taught at the Peggy Guggenheim collection for over 15 years. 

Art Historian, she published two novels: The Colour of the Morning, Mondadori, 1995) and Just Like in Films, Sonzogno, 2000), and two monographs: Stephen Frears and Tiziano, the glory of the perfect colour, Sillabe 2002.