Frank Stitt's Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef's Love Affair with Italian Food

There are some places worth traveling to just for the food: Rome, Venice . . . and now, Birmingham, Italy.

In this companion to his first, best-selling cookbook, the beloved Southern chef Frank Stitt travels to Italy and brings the best of Mediterranean cuisine back home. To Stitt's mind, the two regions-Italy and the American South-share commonalities. Both native cuisines have a tradition of turning humble ingredients-ground corn, bitter greens, cured pork, the daily catch-into poetry on...