Por qué a los italianos les gusta hablar de comida (TUSQUETS) 491 páginas. Nacida en Ucrania y afincada en Italia, Elena Kostioukovitch es profesora de literatura rusa y traductora. Ha contribuido a introducir en Rusia la última literatura italiana y viceversa...
Why Italians Love to Talk About Food is a lovely book recently translated into English. It's written by Elena Kostioukovitch , a Russian who has lived in Italy for many years and who translates Umberto Eco's books into her native language. Accordingly, it's wonderfully literary...
For the past five years the Fales Library, NYU's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, along with Clark Wolf of Clark Wolf Company, Inc. have planned a series of public...
"Why Italians Love to Talk About Food" by Elena Kostioukovitch is a very interesting book about Italian cuisine and its history. What's even better is that it doubles up as a highly effective travelogue as well...
In Elena Kostioukovitch's preface from the book, "Why Italians Love to Talk About Food" Elena asks, "And why is that you identify particular historic moments with references to food?"...
Elena Kostioukovitch is not Italian. She was born in Kiev, Russia. But Kostioukovitch is deeply in touch with her Inner Italian. How do I know? I’ve been reading Why Italians Love to Talk About Food, the Farrar, Straus and Giroux publication of her book...
"It’s a book that food lovers, history buffs and armchair travellers can cherish, savouring every last morsel as they follow Kostioukovitch on her gastronomic journey."...
Written by Umberto Eco's Russian translator, who has lived in Italy for two decades, this is a charming, informative, conversational book about the varied food cultures of Italy...
Russian-born Milan-based Elena Kostioukovitch is a highly regarded translator whose work on Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose earned top awards. Eco returns the favour by writing the foreword for this dense culinary exploration of Italy, top-to-toe...
Described as “a journey through Italy’s great regional cuisines,” this unique book on food and culture has already become a best-seller in Italy and Russia. Kostioukovitch, a Martha Stewart look-alike with considerable literary chops...
E' uscito poche settimane fa in Spagna Por que a los italianos les gusta hablar de comida, scritto dall'ucraniana Elena Kostiukovitch, da anni residente a Milano è uscito anche in Italia con il titolo Perché agli italiani piace parlare del cibo. Un itinerario tra storia, cultura e costume...
