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Works

Books

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Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way

by Oretta Zanini De Vita and Maureen B. Fant

The indispensable cookbook for genuine Italian sauces and the traditional pasta shapes that go with them. Photos by Gentl & Hyers/Edge, drawings by Luciana Marini, and wine pairings by Michelle Farkas.

Williams-Sonoma Rome

Text by Maureen B. Fant, photographs by Jean-Blaise Hall.
Oxmoor House 2005. ISBN 0848730062.

The Rome volume in the Williams-Sonoma Foods of the World series. About half is devoted to 50 recipes, from antipasto to dolce, and half to text on food history, local practices, and spotlights on specific foods. It really is mostly my Rome—what's traditional, what's trendy, and what we have that you don't.

Trattorias of Rome, Florence, and Venice

by Maureen B. Fant
Ecco Press (HarperCollins), New York, 2001. ISBN 0-06-095687-9

Dictionary of Italian Cuisine

by Maureen B. Fant and Howard M. Isaacs
Ecco Press, Hopewell NJ, 1998. ISBN 0-88001-612-4

Women's Life in Greece and Rome

by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant
3rd rev. ed.
Duckworth, London, and Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2005. First ed. published in 1982.

Eat like the Romans: the Visitor's Food Guide

by Maureen B. Fant
Alphabyte Books, Rome, 1992. ISBN 88-86128-00-2

Translations

Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds: Recipes and Lore from Rome and Lazio

By Oretta Zanini De Vita, translated by Maureen B. Fant

Encyclopedia of Pasta

By Oretta Zanini De Vita, translated by Maureen B. Fant
California Studies in Food and Culture
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009. ISBN 978-0520255227

An A to Z collection of traditional Italian pasta shapes, winner of a James Beard award in 2010

Antonello Colonna: Un anarchico ai fornelli. Da Labico a New York

By Stefano Polacchi and Antonello Colonna, published by Gambero Rosso, 2005. One of Lazio's top chef-restaurateurs tells his story.

Selected articles

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