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

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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." Show more