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Venice Part 2

Posted by Ed Levine, February 7, 2006 at 1:13 PM

I always like to compare at least two reliable and credible sources when I am about to go somewhere, so in that spirit here is Faith Willinger's take on Venetian food. Faith is a food writer and cookbook author who has lived in Italy for many years now, and I have found her to be fairly reliable. She can (like all of us) get a little too chummy with some of the people she writes about, but she certainly knows Italian food inside and out, especially northern Italian food (she lives in Florence). Her book Eating in Italy: A Traveler's Guide to the Hidden Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern Italy (1998) is worth seeking out, as is Fred Plotkin's Italy for the Gourmet Traveler, Revised. Both books are dated but still useful. When you add all of this info up we may be, in my son's words, getting into 511 (too much information) territory, but I'd rather err on the side of too much info rather than too little.

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