Joan Peterson

Portuguese country-style home cooking and Michelin-rated restaurants receive equal treatment in this newest addition to the Eat Smart series of culinary travel guidebooks. A huge variety of seafood, rice, and spices from around the world acknowledge Portugal's history as a seafaring nation. Hundreds of different breads and cakes also underscore local traditions. Eat Smart in Portugal connects menus and markets to geography, history, and regional pride. Authentic Portuguese dining ranges from the famed bacalhau--salt cod that locals cook in 365 different ways--to Lisbon chef Jose Avillez's mergulho do mar (a dip in the sea), poached sea bass with bivalves and marine plants. Other culinary stars are smoky grilled sardines; flavorful chourico sausage in the prized soup caldo verde; custard tarts called pasteis de nata; port wines from the Douro river valley; and queijo da Serra, a creamy ewe's-milk cheese from the high plateaus of the Serra da Estrela. This easy-to-use guidebook includes practical and fun features: dozens of delicious recipes from chefs and other food experts that allow travelers and cookbook lovers to recreate Portuguese specialties at home a Menu Guide that demystifies food selection, allowing visitors to order with confidence a Food and Flavors Guide that provides a comprehensive list of foods, spices, and more to assist shoppers at colorful markets an explanation of culinary history that covers the origins and varieties of ingredients, regional recipes, and well-known Portuguese favorites a translation of useful phrases that eases the challenge of shopping for food or placing an order in restaurants glossaries that introduce food and cooking terms in Portuguese and English.

Offers an upbeat and fascinating look at the culinary history, culture, regional dishes, and recipes of Norway for vacation goers, business travellers, and backpackers alike. It provides a treasury of culinary surprises and language tips for navigating menu and market, guiding the reader through unfamiliar Norwegian cuisine.

Veer off the tourist-beaten path to find authentic cuisine and rich new experiences in Mexico.""Eat Smart in Mexico"" is a celebration of Mexican cuisine and one of nine titles in the authoritative ""Eat Smart"" series. It contains a rich historical perspective on the origins and varieties of Mexican food and extensive background on delectable regional dishes. Spanish phrases are included to make your culinary adventure even more successful.At the core of the book are two extensive guides to Spanish terms with English translations. The ""Menu Guide"" demystifies food selection, allowing visitors to order with confidence in restaurants; the ""Foods & Flavors Guide"" is a comprehensive list of foods, spices, cooking utensils, and cooking styles, to make shopping in the colorful outdoor markets easy and fun. For the adventuresome traveler, this is a richly annotated resource that will help you understand and appreciate Mexican culture through authentic local cuisine.

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.

This smartly designed culinary travel guidebook opens up the world of Brazilian food to travelers, including students studying abroad, and tells how to find the most delicious, authentic, and adventuresome eating experiences there. The second edition of ""Eat Smart in Brazil"" comes with a new cover design, as well as an updated resources chapter. In addition, the index has been supplemented with a Portuguese translation for each English entry, making the book more useful for any traveler. The author shares the secrets she's uncovered while hunting for something good to eat - from restaurant dining to home cooking to fresh market produce - to allow you to get to the heart of the culture through its cuisine. The book also includes recipes from some of the finest chefs in Brazil. As you know, food is one of the first and most immediate contacts a traveler makes with a foreign country. Travelers to Brazil can make it a more memorable contact by taking along the easy-to-use ""Eat Smart in Brazil"", one of the guides in the award-winning ""Eat Smart"" series. The authors show that traveling and eating in unfamiliar territory doesn't have to be gastronomical guesswork.

This richly photographed and illustrated culinary travel guidebook tells travelers how to find the most delicious, authentic, and adventuresome eating experiences in Peru. The authors share the secrets they've uncovered - from restaurant dining to home cooking to fresh market produce to street-vendor fare - that will allow you to get to the heart of the culture through its cuisine. Travelers to Peru can make it a more memorable contact by taking along the easy-to-use ""Eat Smart in Peru"", the newest guide in the award-winning ""Eat Smart"" series. The authors show that traveling and eating in unfamiliar territory doesn't have to be gastronomical guesswork.