The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is the perfect companion for exploring the world of Italian cuisine. This app provides instant translations of all the food names, terms and phrases commonly used in cooking. And it's much more than just a dictionary. In-depth entries for all the important words offer background, with descriptions of what's in a dish, where it came from, what goes good with it and who does it best.
The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is comprehensive—some 6,000 words in all, including dialect words and local dishes from every region of Italy. The advanced search function allows you to instantly find the Italian word for anything, and easy navigation lets you puzzle through any restaurant menu in a snap.
With so many regional styles and specialities, Italian cooking can be awfully mystifying (we've found over twenty words for chanterelle mushrooms), but this app will help you sort out the local peculiarities as well as the hundreds of varieties of cheeses, charcuterie, fish, pasta shapes and the rest.
The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is an education in everything Italian in a fun, accessible form. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned Italophile, it is bound to increase your enjoyment and appreciation of one of the world's great cuisines. Buon appetito!
• Over 2000 articles for the most important dishes and specialities
• Special lists of cookware and tableware words, cuts of meat, cheese and wine terms and other topics
• Links to food sites, blogs and recipes, and to Italian food festivals
• Take it to the market and learn what you're looking at
• Use it to decipher real Italian recipes
• Lists DOC foods, and local specialities in the Slow Food 'Presidium' (was Ark of Taste)
* About the Authors *
Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls are the authors of twenty-six Cadogan Guides covering every town and region of Italy; in 2018 they published the detailed Bradt Northern Italy: Emilia-Romagna guide and in 2019, their Bradt guide to Friuli Venezia Giulia was the first in English to the region; currently they are working on the Bradt guide to Umbria and Le Marche. They started back in 1986, bringing up their children in a tiny Umbrian village while exploring the country. Italy soon had its way with them, turning them (and the children) into hopeless, unrepentant foodies. In their travels, they always enjoyed taking notes on regional specialities and obscure delights, and these became the basis of this app.
Informative in a hurry; fascinating to browse at leisure
stepney111
You need it when the menu comes but you’ll treasure it at home with a glass or two.
Mangia!
suej11
This is a great app for aspirant foodies and those who live in Italy, and just downright interesting or the rest of us. I'd like to see something similar for many other countries e.g. France, Greece, Japan etc...I notice that most comments seem to come from people in Italy, who are presumably already familiar with Italian food, and will certainly contribute to more detailed and accurate details. But I wonder if something for the less sophisticated might be useful e.g. why menus are separated into primi and secundi piatti - maybe they no longer are, but if so some overview of Italian eating style would be useful e.g. traditionally huge steaks served without any potatoes or other veg because it's assumed you'll have had pasta as a first course.The navigation is easy, though I'm confused by 'distance' - why do I want to search by that? I also took a minute or two to get used to the 'name' search to find key items, such as 'cheese words' - useful high level detail, I thought, but what about the names of cheeses? But then I found the 'category' search, and there they all are. Of course the initial 'cheese words' search does give you a clue ('reading the labels') but it made far more sense after I found the category search. Like all apps, you need to play around a bit to figure it out.Altogether a super useful app,which I wish I'd had last year in Laos for Laotian food!
Such a great App!!
Jobbs
I can't recommend this app more highly. It's been a fantastic tool for us both before and during our family trip to Sardinia. Its extremely clear and very easy to navigate your way around. It's excellent at providing knowledge and help for all those menu-dilemma moments! Something to 'pack' before leaving to go on any Italian break!
Delicious Decoder
Kikilalah
This App is mouthwatering. Just reading all about Italy,learning Simple phrases and Food words is enough to make you yearn fro a trip to Italy to sample their wonderful food.The App is easy to navigate, sprinkled with enticing photographs and has a user friendly feel about it. I give it 5 stars. Kiki In Singapore.
Add entries for Acquasale, crapiata, friselline, nepeta, Padraccio, pasta mollicata. Update broken links.
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Information
Provider
Wu Wei Ltd
Size
182.6 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
