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National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2023
ISBN
9780735223165, 9780735223189
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4008890 bytes)
Pages
\0
Library
qa
Time added
2024-07-12 08:02:46

Description

In this engrossing and timely journey to the crossroads of food and identity award-winning writer Anya von Bremzen explores six of the world’s most fascinating and iconic culinary cultures—France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Turkey—brilliantly weaving cuisine, history, and politics into a work of scintillating connoisseurship and charmWe all have an idea in our heads about what French food is—or Italian, or Japanese, or Mexican, or . . .  But where did those ideas come from? Who decides what makes a national food canon? Recipient of three James Beard awards, Anya von Bremzen has written definitive cookbooks on Russian, Spanish, and Latin American cuisines, as well as her internationally acclaimed memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking. Now in National Dish, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the eternal cliché—“we are what we eat”—traveling to six...

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