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\u00a0Strange stuff you find sometimes in thrift shops. There is one such shop pretty close to where I live, and I sometimes wander there to see if they have something of interest (mainly 90s Sperling&Kupfer novels, which I sort of collect). Lo and behold, I find nothing other than a book in Japanese! How did it end up in the heartland of Italy? Pretty interesting story, I must say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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You see, in what’s pretty much the city right next to the one where I live, Reggio Emilia, there is a rather famous restaurant and coffee shop, Caff\u00e8 Arti e Mestieri<\/a><\/i>. Or, rather, I should say ‘there was’, as the establishment has been under new management<\/a> for more than a decade now. I know nothing about this new management, but under the old one Caff\u00e8 Arti e Mestieri\u00a0<\/i>used to be pretty much a fixture of city life, renowned both for its cuisine, and for the many art exhibits that took place in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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One thing many do not know (and neither did I) is that the coffeeshop also had an offshoot in… Tokyo. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any information about this dining place – I assume that, as often happens in Tokyo, it didn’t last more than a few years – but one such product of this parentage was the book I am reviewing today, aptly titled Tasty Italian Cuisine of Caff\u00e9 Arti e Mestieri.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Unlike what I usually review, this is not a d\u014djinshi, and it shows: hardcover, full color (date is 2005), it’s really more of a coffee table sort of book. It does contain recipes, but the bulk of the book consists of pretty pictures of tasty- looking italian food with the restaurant’s verdant locale as a backdrop. It’s pretty much food porn: money shots of polenta, pizza, pasta and various regional cuisine displayed on lush table settings; interspersed by portraits of Alberto and Enzo, Caff\u00e8<\/i>‘s creators and long-time manager and chef, busy preparing such dishes; and a few simple shots of the emilian countryside.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0A very idealized portrait of Italy (I can tell you, I live there, and it’s one of the most polluted places in Europe<\/a>), but still I had to pick up the item: not only it was cheap, but it reminded me a bit of those 80s and 90s cookbooks that my grandma and mother used to keep handy for when family notes failed them – which didn’t happen often, but sometimes it did. Add to it that I’ve always been a sucker for cool coffee table books, and this rather curious item is now in my collection. Cool stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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