Recipes From Paradise, Life and Food on the Italian Riviera. By Fred Plotkin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1997. 1st. ed. Large 8vo. xv, 480pp., prof. illust. in color & b/w (most by the author), biblio., index. Color illust. bds., very slight rippling to some pages, else Good in slightly chipped, else Good color pictorial DJ. Well-written.