Italian Menu Decoder

If only I had the benefit of this app when I was in Siena back in 1986 Then my future wife ordered us mortadella sandwiches for a picnic lunch perhaps the worst dining experience of my life at least in Italy With Italian Menu Decoder I would have avoided that catastrophic meal and the courtship may have run its course more smoothly Truth be told I have dined with the authors of this app on several occasions both in the states some 30 years ago and abroad I knew them when they could barely cook a kielbasa and did not have great sense of finer cuisine But now that they have lived in Italy and France since 1985 and traveled extensively writing over 40 Cadogan tour guides and numerous newspaper and magazine articles on Italy France Greece and Spain things have changed dramatically To be invited to dine at chez Pauls and Facaros is a culinary delight The starters themselves are worth the trip Michael makes a mean aranchini and Danas exotic pizzas are beyond compare Italian Menu Decoder has strong merits The recent update makes it even better It deciphers not only the language and dialects that youll find on any Italian restaurant menu but will also explain the cutlery meats pastas ingredients and sauces that bring life to Italian cuisine If you dine Italiano frequently or if you jut wish to learn more about Italian cuisine this app is for you                 Decipher those Italian Menus with Aplumb

Traveling to CapriAmalfi next week and want quick lookup of menu items while dining Poor connectivity in remote areas is why I purchased this app App is very slow wants to download many MB of photos and worst did not list a random test of 5 southern specialties that are all prominently described on various live web sites Search function does not indicate if it is still searching or simply has no entry found No wonder they say so little about the app Its worthless     Armchair Tourist

I cant believe how much useful info is jammed into this app Both practical and enlightening LOVE it                 Mangia is right

This app is monumental We travel to Italy all the time and I cant count how many times it would have come in handy on previous trips but so glad we have it now Cant wait to take it to Sicily next month Mille grazie Dana and Michael                 5 stars are not enough

Easy to use and fun Excellent organization smooth navigation Lots of ways to searchvery cool structure Provides way more than translation of menu terms historical tidbits background information and explanations that make ingredientsdishes come alive Perfect decoder at the market tooa huge bonus The authors obviously love Italy and Italian food Brilliant app Far more than anticipated                 This app has it all

A real life saver in Italy essential if you go off the beaten track and want to eat where the Italians eat                 Absolutely essential for visiting Italy

The overall info seems OK and its good that the authors keep up a running dialog in the Comment and the pictures are often useful But I very much dislike that vocabulary is strewn between various sections forcing the reader to root around is is under General Restaurant Words Bar Words Cheese Words I also find some of the navigation awkward what with the General vocabulary split into 4 sections and some of the linked items leading to peculiar results eg the link from allamatriciana leading to in bianco and a somewhat cryptic remark about sauces without tomato in themwhereas the name for an amatriciana made without tomato sauce is alla gricia which ought to be linked there but is not Some of the choices for vocabulary entry are mysterious Eg alla gricia is found under gricia but allamatriciana is found under all and alla milanese is found under alla not milanese Peculiar So good idea needs work           Awkward divisions navigation

Very useful and just what you need to figure out the menus in Italy The app has an extensive list of terms Filter by types of dishes or by region of the country Now I wont feel so helpless in front of an Italian menu Thanks for providing this Highly recommended                 If you are going to Italy you need this

We recently bought this APP in preparation for our next trip to Italy I only wish we had had it during our last trip where we visited many small villages and often had no idea of what we were ordering as the locals only spoke Italian and our knowledge of the language as well as our ItalianEnglish dictionary were of little use We have been enjoying the APPs lively and informative text beautiful pictures and all of the extras such as the 5 minute grammar lesson while dreaming about all of the delicacies that await us This book is a treasure for anyone who loves Italian food And being the foodies that we are we hope that the authors write a food APP for France and Spain soon                 Keep the menu APPs coming

This app is absolutely fantastic Im an Italian Instructor and although Im quite fluent there are times I look at an Italian menu particularly in a regional part of Italy and I am completely mystified Regional diversity is a hallmark of Italian cuisine and unless youre at a tourist restaurant with everything written in four languages yuck something that I avoid like the plague you may find the menus to be filled with local regional and dialectical vocabulary and terminology Absolutely unfathomable This app addresses those issues beautifully This is a very rich app worth every bit of the 5 It goes from the basic to the very detailed If you are just looking for Survival Italian Restaurant Skills this is for you but for my purposes it also addresses culinary regional diversity and takes the confusion out of ordering in restaurants no matter what region of Italy youre in The app is enhanced by thousands of photos that give life to those wonderful obscure local food items and dishes Pure joy I miei complimenti a Dana e Michael Buon appetito Susan Nus author of Italian Fluency                 ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC

Including a whole bunch of stuff you didnt even know you needed to know The only problem is that I can get lost in this immense wealth of information just reading and looking at gorgeous pictures But when I want to look for something specific the Filters and search take me there So it works and whether in a restaurant grocery or anyplace else food is the object this app will cover your back                 Absolutely everything you need to know

I love this app I only used it a few times while traveling Not only was it useful but provided odd bits of history leading me and my husband down the rabbit hole of Italian gastronomy Since then Ive used it several times with foodie friends just for the fun of it Great app                 Not Just for Travel a Foodie MustHave

Terrible Crashes upon opening I have sent three emails to their support and have yet to receive a reply much less a solution Finally received a return email giving me suggestions I had already tried They did contact me again and gave me a refund but no fix     Italian Food Decoder

I love Italian food I love Italy I even love Italians But every time I visit I end up ordering the same small selection of things I know how to pronounce Spaghetee This menu decoder opened up a whole new world of Italian cuisine Its got easy to use navigation to food types regions and specific dishes The history of phrases and foods is great guess where puttanesca comes from Overall very wellwritten helpful and fun                 Now I know what affogato is

These guys wrote the Cadogan regional guides to Italy still the best Ive found and every September we travel with them and the latest edition of the Slow Food Osteria guide Over the years our Italian has improved but I cant count the times weve been completely stumped by dialect names on menus and in the shops that are NEVER NEVER in our ItalianEnglish dictionaries But theyre on this app Great pics and masses of information and anecdotes even a guide to the cuts of meat in Italian always one of the big mysteries Other good news is the fat heavy old Osteria guide is now an app too If you like touring and eating off the beaten track in Italy get both you wont regret it                 Insanely comprehensive