Spaghetti & stars. La dolce vita a tavola

This book represents the image of Italy during "La Doce Vita": high society, entertainment, love, the paparazzi, lunches and dinners in the Trastevere restaurants. Spaghetti is a cultural phenomenon, something entirely and inimitably Italian...

Pasta probably tops the list of best-known Italian icons worldwide. Besides being synonymous with Italianism, pasta also means warmth, taste and creativity. It is culture. It brings an infinity of shapes, a thousand and one ways to cook it, and nutritional content; it is delicate and powerful, sophisticated yet simple, and loaded with the energy of wheat and water - pasta embodies in some way the special character of our country, Italy...

Walter Veltroni