Samuel Chamberlain, Italian Bouquet: An Epicurean Tour of Italy (1958) Hbk Good

This hard-to-find book about Italian regional cultures is an expansion of a series of articles first published in Gourmet Magazine. Author Samuel Chamberlain spent years traveling around the various regions of Italy in the 1940s and 1950s, meeting people of varied backgrounds and writing essays on local life for travel magazines. This illustrated "Epicurean Tour" is one part travelogue, one part historical introduction, and one part recipe book that presents the diverse regional cuisines of Italy with detailed recipes for the most characteristic dishes. This is one of those rare recipe books that includes information that you can't find easily online! Great for cooks but also a fascinating portrait of Italy in the immediate post-WWII era, casting light on a world now vanished. This copy is Good Condition with tight binding and clean unmarked pages. The cover has some dust and dirt that is hard to remove, and some scuffing, but still very presentable. See photos! Smoke-free home.