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A native of Minnesota and a former editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, Burton Anderson has lived in Italy for more than 40 years writing about wine, food, and travel. His prize-winnin...
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A native of Minnesota and a former editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, Burton Anderson has lived in Italy for more than 40 years writing about wine, food, and travel. His prize-winning books include Vino, the Wines & Winemakers of Italy, The Wine Atlas of Italy, and Treasures of the Italian Table. He is also founder and CEO of Fiasco Enterprises.
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Burton Anderson, a native of Minnesota and a former editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, has lived in Italy for more than 40 years writing about wine, food, and travel. His prize-winning books include: Burton Anderson’s Guide to the Wines of Italy (and related titles), first published by Mitchell Beazley of London and Simon & Schuster of New York in 1982 and subsequently in Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, and Japanese. The Wine Atlas of Italy, published in 1990 in English (Mitchell Beazley and Simon & Schuster), German (Hallwag) and Italian (Mediolanum). The Atlas was honored as wine book of the year for 1990 in the UK by the André Simon Memorial Fund, The Glenfiddich Awards, Decanter magazine, and the Wine Guild; in the USA by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the James Beard Awards, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year competitions. In Italy it won the Premio Internazionale Barbi Colombini for literature and science of viniculture. Treasures of the Italian Table, published in 1994 in the USA by William Morrow, in the UK by Penguin/Viking as Pleasures of the Italian Table and in Japanese. For this book, the author won the 1995 James Beard Award for Writing on Food. Burton Anderson’s Best Italian Wines, published in 2001 by Little, Brown and Websters in the USA and UK. The volume was originally two books, 101 Grandi vini rossi d’Italia and 101 Grandi vini bianchi d’Italia, published in Italian and German. There is also an edition in Japanese. Boccadoro, the Honorary Pirate, a novel published in 2007 by iUniverse in the USA, describes the adventures of an American wine whiz self-exiled to a Tuscan island. Other books include Wines of Italy, Foods of Italy, and Understanding Italian Wines published in numerous updated editions by the Italian Trade Commission of New York; Biondi Santi, published in English and Italian by the Biondi Santi family 1988; Weinstraßen Italiens, published in German by Hallwag 1991; Franciacorta, Italy’s Sanctuary of Sparkling Wine, published in English and Italian 1999 by Giorgio Mondadori; Atlas of the Wine Roads of Tuscany, published by the Region of Tuscany 2002. Recent projects include DVDs on the wines of Tuscany and Piedmont in English and Italian produced by the Cecchi Gori Group, Italy’s leading film producer. Articles have appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine, the Quarterly Review of Wines, GQ, and Decanter. In 2007, Burton Anderson was inducted into the original Wine Writer’s Hall of Fame by the Wine Media Guild of New York. In 2009, he was named to the first Wines of Italy Hall of Fame by the Italian Trade Commission of New York. Burton Anderson is founder and CEO of Fiasco Enterprises, a non-profit organization dedicated to the welfare of underdogs, also-rans, has-beens, long shots, and lost causes.