{"id":9920,"date":"2017-01-11T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2017-01-12T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T02:31:00","slug":"eat-smart-in-sicily-how-to-decipher-the-menu-know-the-market-food-embark-on-a-tasting-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/eat-smart-in-sicily-how-to-decipher-the-menu-know-the-market-food-embark-on-a-tasting-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Smart in Sicily – How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Food & Embark on a Tasting Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eat Smart in Sicily – How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Food & Embark on a Tasting Adventure<\/strong><\/span>
\nJoan Peterson and Marcella Croce<\/em><\/p>\n

Winner of the\u00a0National Best Books 2008 Awards\u00a0<\/strong>for Travel Guides, sponsored by\u00a0USABookNews.com<\/strong>.\u00a0Finalist for the\u00a02009 Next Generation Indie Book Award\u00a0<\/strong>in theTravel\/Travel Guide<\/strong>\u00a0category.\u00a0First Runner up for the\u00a0Eric Hoffer Book Award\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0Reference – Travel\u00a0<\/strong>category.\u00a0Best Food Guidebook of the Year 2008\u00a0<\/strong>from Planeta.com.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2892\"Rich with seafood, citrus, olives, and almond sweets, the cuisine of the sun-drenched island of Sicily reflects the influence of Greeks, Norman French, Tunisians, and Italians, among others. Unlike guidebooks that sweep Sicily into an overview of Italy, this latest addition to the award-winning Eat Smart series focuses solely on the cuisine of Sicily.\u00a0Eat Smart in Sicily<\/em>\u00a0provides an historical overview of the peoples who have lived there and their contributions to Sicilian cuisine, with attention given to the fare distinct to the villages and urban centers of Sicily\u2019s four regions. A helpful guide to Sicilian menus, with English translations of Italian (or Sicilian) words, makes ordering food in Sicily an easy and immediately rewarding experience. Highlighting regional recipe mainstays, Joan Peterson and Marcella Croce provide tips to shopping for traditional ingredients in Sicily and at home. The book also includes a comprehensive glossary of foods, kitchen utensils, and cooking methods to prepare authentic Sicilian specialties at home or abroad.<\/p>\n

“Eat Smart in Sicily<\/em>\u00a0by Joan Peterson and Marcella Croce<\/strong> (Ginkgo Press, 2008) [is] the best portable guidebook to Sicilian food, with a summary of Sicilian culinary history and a very good menu translator. You’ll definitely want to take this little book with you when you travel to Sicily.”
\n\u2014 Sharon Hudgins, food editor of\u00a0European Traveler,<\/em>\u00a0http:\/\/www.europeantraveler.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-0-9776801-1-5
\n$13.95 paperback
\n5.5 x 8.5 – 160 Pages
\nPub. Date 2008<\/p>\n

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This book helps you find the heart of Sicilian culture through its sumptuous cuisine. Rich with seafood, citrus, olives, and almond sweets, the cuisine of the sun-drenched island of Sicily reflects the influence of Greeks, Norman French, Tunisians, and Italians, among others. Unlike guide-books that sweep Sicily into an overview of Italy, this latest addition to the award-winning Eat Smart series focuses solely on the cuisine of Sicily.”Eat Smart in Sicily” provides an historical overview of the peoples who have lived there and their contributions to Sicilian cuisine, with attention given to the fare distinct to the villages and urban centers of Sicily’s four regions. A helpful guide to Sicilian menus, with English translations of Italian (or Sicilian) words, makes ordering food in Sicily an easy and immediately rewarding experience. Highlighting regional recipe mainstays, Joan Peterson and Marcella Croce provide tips to shopping for traditional ingredients in Sicily and at home. The book also includes a comprehensive glossary of foods, kitchen utensils, and cooking methods to prepare authentic Sicilian specialties at home or abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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