Celebrating Italy / Carol Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Carol.

Contributor:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--Italy.

Festivals.

Italy.

Cooking, Italian.

Italy--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xiv, 530 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc.., [1990]

Contents:

Part One. Abundance: Festa dei serpari (Snake festival in Cocullo); Sagra del pesce (Fish sagra in Camogli); Corsa dei ceri (Race of the candles in Gubbio); Resta del riso (Rice festival in Villimpenta); Sagra della fragola (Strawberry festival in Nemi); Infiorata (capets of flowers in Spello); Fest dei gigli (dance of the lilies in Nola); San Giovanni Battista (Festival of Saint John the Baptist); Raccolta del grano (Wheat harvest in the Val di Chiana); Festino di Santa Rosalia (Fest of Saint Rosalia in Palermo); Festa del Redentore (Feast of the Redeemer in Venice); Festa del Calderon (Festival of the cauldron in Altopascio)

Part Two. Harvest: Il palio (Palio in Siena); Torata dei fieschi (Cake of the Fieschi in Lavagna); Fiera del cacio (Fair of the Pecorino cheese in Pienza); Sagra del Cinghiale (Boar festivaal in Capalbio); Sagra dell'oca (Goose festival in Mortara); Rassegna dei cuochi (Celebration of cooks in Villa Santa Maria); Fiera dell'uva (Wine grape festival in Greve in Chianti); Sagra dell'uva (Grape festival in Quartu Sant'Elena); Sagra dell'uva (Grape harvest in Merano); Vandemmia (Wine grape crush in Alba and Todi); Il palio degli asini e la fiera del Tartufo (Donkey palio and truffle fair in Alba)

Part Three. Darkness: San Marino (Saint Martin's Day); Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy's Day in Sicily and Lombardy; Natale (Christmas); Capo d'Anno (New Year)' Epifania (Epiphany in Tarcento); Sant'Antonio Abate (Feast of Saint Anthony the Abbot)

Part Four. Rebirth: San Biagio (Fest day of Saint Blaise); Carnevale (Carinal in Italy); Venerdì gnoccolar (Gnocchi Bacchanalia in Verona); Polentata (Polenta celebration in Tossignano); Pranzo del Puragorio (Ash Wednesday Purgatorial lunch in Gradoli); Quaresima (Lent); San Giuseppe (Saint Joseph's Day); Pasqua (Easter in Sicily).

Notes:

"Book design by Joel Avirom."

"More than 175 exuberant recipes celebrating Italy's irrepressible love of feasts and festivals - nearly all new to the American table."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-509) and index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Malgieri Collection copy is Review Copy with notification of publication date "9-22-93?" laid in.

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket with transparent protective cover retained.

ISBN:

0688070930 :

OCLC:

21440840

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page