{"product_id":"delizia","title":"Delizia!","description":"Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany - among sun-weathered peasants, and mammas serving pasta under the pergola. Yet this nostalgic fantasy has little to do with the real history of Italian cuisine.For a thousand years, Italys cities have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. So Italian food is city food, and telling its story means telling the story of the Italians as a people of city dwellers.\nIn DELIZIA! the author of the acclaimed COSA NOSTRA takes a revelatory historical journey through the flavours of Italys cities. From the bustle of Medieval Milan, to the bombast of Fascist Rome; from the pleasure gardens of Renaissance Ferrara, to the putrid alleyways of nineteenth-century Naples. In rich slices of urban life, DELIZIA! shows how violence and intrigue, as well as taste and creativity, combined to make the worlds favourite cuisine.","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton General Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39668005371989,"sku":"9780340896419N","price":7.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/5e6c6b91-0879-4d5b-9e4e-3432ce65496c.jpg?v=1644248504","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/delizia","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}