Confused at the Coop grocery store, try Mangia to help
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!
Now if only they would make an app to decipher menus!
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Absolutely essential for visiting Italy
A real life saver in Italy, essential if you go off the beaten track and want to eat where the Italians eat!
Second edition even better!
The new version is much improved by a better Home screen that makes it easier to navigate.
Everything you could possibly want to know about Italian cuisine is still here, with the inimitable style that made the Cadogan travel guides so much fun.
Beautiful pictures add the finishing touch to an app that will make you crave a trip!
Everything you could possibly want to know about Italian cuisine is still here, with the inimitable style that made the Cadogan travel guides so much fun.
Beautiful pictures add the finishing touch to an app that will make you crave a trip!
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5 stars are not enough!
This app is monumental. We travel to Italy all the time, and I can't count how many times it would have come in handy on previous trips - but so glad we have it now. Can't wait to take it to Sicily next month. Mille grazie, Dana and Michael!
Fascinating
The fullest and most interesting app of its kind that I have ever found.
Italian Food Decoder
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.
Not Just for Travel - a "Foodie" Must-Have!"
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 I've used it several times with foodie friends just for the fun of it. Great app!
If you are going to Italy you need this
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 won't feel so helpless in front of an Italian menu. Thanks for providing this. Highly recommended.
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!
This app is absolutely fantastic! I'm an Italian Instructor and although I'm 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 you're 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 you're 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
Regional diversity is a hallmark of Italian cuisine and unless you're 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 you're 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
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Now I know what affogato is!
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. Spa-ghe-tee. This menu decoder opened up a whole new world of Italian cuisine! It's 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 well-written, helpful and fun.
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