[3] In 1977, Anderson quit his job as news editor for the International Herald Tribune in Paris, moved to Tuscany, and devoted himself to writing on Italian wine and food.
[1] In 2009, he was named to the Wines of Italy Hall of Fame by the Italian Trade Commission of New York.
The Wines & Winemakers of Italy, published by Atlantic-Little, Brown of Boston and Macmillan of London in 1980.
It was honored as wine book of the year for 1990 in the UK by the André Simon Memorial Fund [5] and the Glenfiddich Award.
[7][9] R. W. Apple Jr. reviewed this book for The New York Times pointing out the author's efforts to take the reader into every corner of Italian food, by revealing its secrets.