LA CUCINA DI CAPRI / THE CUISINE OF CAPRI – Storia e ricette / History and recipies About the islands..., Astrea, Capri, English language books, Gastronomy and oenology, History, Multilingual books, Nonfiction, Photos

by: Apicius Insulae

With color and black&white photographs

English and Italian Edition

What you find here are not simply recipes – even though surely leading to the subsequent preparation of excellent dishes on your part – but, above all, the basic representation (and what is more basic than food?) of evolutionary processes of contamination, of transformation. Yes, because the art of cooking is probably the best demonstration of the island’s true identity: a perfect combination – or blend, to keep to the culinary theme – of internal elements forming part of its history and its customs, and the countless and continuous outside influence deriving from tourism, which at the end of the nineteenth century was already becoming Capri’s driving econom.