Italy - Gastronomic map of Italy; Anonimo - • les MENUS que vous commanderez pour vos repas - 1951-1960

Delicious and rare pictorial and gastronomic map of Italy, entitled "the MENUS you will order for your meals", published for promotional and tourist purposes around 1954 for the French-speaking market.
The work consists of a large illustrated sheet (originally conceived as an inner part of a fold-out brochure titled "Eating The Italian Way") that offers a picturesque and very colorful panorama of the culinary traditions of the peninsula. At the center stands the map of Italy divided into regions, surrounded by a richly decorative apparatus with vignettes of people in traditional costumes, scenes of daily life and culinary allegories (such as roosters, bottles of wine and ships). On the sides and at the bottom there develop true, detailed textual menus for each geographic area (Piemonte, Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Sicily, Sardinia, etc.), listing the regional dishes to order. Printed with a beautiful color range typical of the fifties, this map represents an excellent and sought-after example of advertising cartography and a 20th-century "pictorial map", combining the allure of cartographic collecting with the history of costume and post-war Italian cuisine.

Dimensions 43 x 61 cm
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