With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable History of Roman cuisine and the world--served one dish at a time.
Readers will never look at spaghetti carbonara the same way again..
His culinary archaeology is an entertaining, flavorful journey across the Dinner table and time.
Viestad\'s Dinner may be local, but his story is universal.
And, from his sorbet dessert, he recounts how lemons featured in the History of the Mafia in the nineteenth century and how the hunger for sugar fueled the slave trade.
With his fried artichoke antipasto, he explains olive oil\'s part in the religious conflict of sixteenth-century Europe.
Viestad finds deeper meanings in his meal: He uses the bread that begins his Dinner to trace the origins of wheat and its role in Rome\'s rise as well as its downfall.
Food, he argues, is history\'s secret driving force.
From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City and global civilization.
There is more History in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum, writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome .
Now in paperback.
With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable History of Roman cuisine and the world--served one dish at a time
