Columbus Menu: Italian Cuisine after the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus, 1492-1992

127 pp. ""Columbus Menu" presents the history of Italian cuisine after the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, and explains how products from the New World were welcomed in Italy, and flourished as they were incorporated into Italian cooking. This new cuisine, derived from these food items and cited as a symbol and synthesis of many of Italy's finest qualities, owes a great debt to the soil of the Americas."