Italian Food Decoder
Ultimate translator and guide
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The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is the perfect companion for exploring the world of Italian cuisine. This app provides instant translations of all the food names, terms and phrases commonly used in cooking. And it's much more than just a dictionary. In-depth entries for all the important words offer background, with descriptions of what's in a dish, where it came from, what goes good with it and who does it best.

The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is comprehensive—some 6,000 words in all, including dialect words and local dishes from every region of Italy. The advanced search function allows you to instantly find the Italian word for anything, and easy navigation lets you puzzle through any restaurant menu in a snap.

With so many regional styles and specialities, Italian cooking can be awfully mystifying (we've found over twenty words for chanterelle mushrooms), but this app will help you sort out the local peculiarities as well as the hundreds of varieties of cheeses, charcuterie, fish, pasta shapes and the rest.

The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is an education in everything Italian in a fun, accessible form. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned Italophile, it is bound to increase your enjoyment and appreciation of one of the world's great cuisines. Buon appetito!

• Over 2000 articles for the most important dishes and specialities
• Special lists of cookware and tableware words, cuts of meat, cheese and wine terms and other topics
• Links to food sites, blogs and recipes, and to Italian food festivals
• Take it to the market and learn what you're looking at
• Use it to decipher real Italian recipes
• Lists DOC foods, and local specialities in the Slow Food 'Presidium' (was Ark of Taste)

* About the Authors *
Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls are the authors of twenty-six Cadogan Guides covering every town and region of Italy; in 2018 they published the detailed Bradt Northern Italy: Emilia-Romagna guide and in 2019, their Bradt guide to Friuli Venezia Giulia was the first in English to the region; currently they are working on the Bradt guide to Umbria and Le Marche. They started back in 1986, bringing up their children in a tiny Umbrian village while exploring the country. Italy soon had its way with them, turning them (and the children) into hopeless, unrepentant foodies. In their travels, they always enjoyed taking notes on regional specialities and obscure delights, and these became the basis of this app.
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Indispensable app when dining in Italy

Bernal Blaster on

The words used to describe different Italian dishes vary by region, and can baffle even people who speak the language fairly fluently. This app will help you decipher the most confusing Italian menus. With helpful pictures and a good search function, it provides context for what’s on offer, which will help you avoid unwelcome surprises .

Great app

cldelmo on

Love that I can search any word on a menu & have it translated for me!!!

NOMNOMNOM

ohforthesakeofgod on

I’m getting hungry and feeling such a longing for travel from looking through the seafood section!!

Simply the best!

JMR - 675 on

My wife and I rely on this app. It is a lifesaver and has led to so many extraordinary meals from rumb to Venice.

Recommend

Hu-etsu on

I appreciate this app. A lot effort went into it and it’s not only a good language tool, but also a compact culinary reference! I should add that the support team is amazing and quick response to questions! Thank you!

The Best Italian Food

eclisi on

Absolutely the best Italian food app I have found it covers everything , history, culture , regions , anything else you need to know about Italian food. Great app!

Excellent Italian Food Resource

Northwest Player on

The App is extremely well-organized. The “search” function is great for both food shopping and in restaurants.

Decipher those Italian Menus with Aplumb

Chris Malumphy on

Love the update. 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 Dana’s 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 you’ll 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.

Italian Food Decoder is a must

Riknielsen on

If one is going to visit Italy, and plans to eat ANYTHING during that time, be sure to get this app. My visit is for three months, and this guide has been invaluable. If you like to cook, as I do, this is an absolute necessity. Whether you are buying food or going to restaurants, this is essential beyond helpful. Do yourself a big favor and download it.

Confused at the Coop grocery store, try Mangia to help

Bob Paolino on

I am living in Florence for two months. I am not fluent in Italian and this app has been a great help, I bring it with me on my iPad when I go grocery shopping at the local Coop grocery store which is huge with an endless variety of food some of which I have never seen. Now if only they would make an app to decipher menus!

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App Info

Category
Food Drink
Publisher
Wu Wei Ltd
Languages
English
Recent version
5.3 (1 month ago )
Released on
Jun 24, 2013 (11 years ago )
Last updated
1 week ago