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Venetian Region

Images and text from Venetian Republic by Nino Zoccali. Food photography by Alan Benson, Murdoch Books RRP $49.99.

At Zoccali visited21, coming to the end of a 12-month sabbatical in Southern Italy, Sydney chef and restaurateur NinoVenice, and an obsession with the floating city was born. Decades later, in his latest book, Venetian Republic, Zoccali shares 80 recipes from the Republic’s three key regions: Venice and the surrounding Veneto, the Croatian coast and the Greek Islands.

Part culinary journey, part cookbook, Zoccali’s book takes his readers on a historical and gastronomic adventure around his favourite parts of the globe, celebrating, as he does, ingredients

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