Pack This: The Terroir Guides

Seeking the most savory corners of each of your travel destinations? Then get an insider's view, city by city, courtesy of The Terroir Guides ($19.96 each). Designed with the foodie in mind, each tome tells gastronomes where to trawl for gourmet treasures. Take Food Wine Rome, for example. Listings are broken down by neighborhood and then further into three umbrella categories: restaurants, retail shops, and wine shops and bars. Finding the perfect torta di ricotta—at Bar Benito—is a piece of (cheese) cake. Budapest and The Italian Riviera & Genoa are now available; Tokyo and Burgundy will be out in early 2010. Available at littlebookroom.com.

–Caroline Rath,  Modernluxury.com   

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