In Search of Abundance: Mountains of Cheese, Rivers of Wine, and Other Gastronomic Utopias

by Luisa Del Giudice

In that topsy-turvy logic of the Roverso Mondo (the Upside-Down World) mountains are made of cheese, rivers flow with wine, labor is abolished, and pleasure rules in a fantastical place of abundance, the gastronomic utopia known as il Paese di Cuccagna (the Land of Cockaigne). Forming the mythic core of a centuries-old dream of plenty, it came to be closely associated with America. When mass migration was possible, the dream brought millions of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599541858
• ISBN13: 9781599541853
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"