A gastronomic tour embracing various regions of the country. Each chapter weaves together information on the region's traditions, its typical products & its characteristic regions. This book celebrates the gastronomic life of Italy with photographs of countryside & architecture, of people & food products, & of mouth-watering recipes. ...

Italian chef Antonio Carluccio travels through Northern Italy sampling & cooking the region's specialities. Travelling from Liguria to Venice & Verona, he visits locations from his childhood, swapping recipes with whoever he meets. This time around Antonio shows how to make a classic pesto sauce, re-models some traditional dishes, & also creates some tasty treats such as polenta with shrimp. ...

All five episodes of the BBC cookery series in which Antonio Carluccio, the godfather of Italian gastronomy, travels through Southern Italy sampling & cooking the region's specialities. His tour takes him from Sardinia to Sicily & from Campania to Calabria, with visits to Rome, Puglia & Basilicata. Among the treats in store are an impromptu barbecue in a vineyard, a shepherd's feast in the Barbagia Mountains, a Neapolitan pizza-making class, a moonlit octopus-fishing trip & a San Lorenzo's night grill for ten men called Lorenzo. ...

Brazilian director Glauber Rocha's sequel to his 1964 film ' Black God, White Devil'. Mauricio do Valle reprises his role as outlaw warrior Antonio das Mortes, whose wandering life is given new direction when he lands a job as a jagunco (hired killer) for a powerful landowner in Jardim Das Piranhas. Doing what he does best, he soon tracks down & kills the remaining members of the local bandit gang
- but realises too late that his battle should have been against the exploitative landowning classes rather than the dispossessed countryfolk.
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Covers key elements of Gramsci's thought through detailed discussion, & studies the historical context of the theorist's thought. This work also offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture, & evaluates responses to his work. ...