How to Travel Smarter?

I love to plan. I can spend a year planning a trip for two or three weeks, but we love to go to Italy and I always loved Fred Plotkin's books because he gave you all the restaurants. And as passionate as I am about Italian history or art or architecture, he is about food. If you want to come at the culture from a food angle, in the case of Italy, you'd want a book by Fred Plotkin. You know, you can do your research and have a trip that fits your travel dreams more snugly.