National dish : around the world in search of food, history, and the meaning of home
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
394.12/VON BREMZEN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2023
DESCRIPTION
340 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780735223165, 0735223165 :, 0735223165, 9780735223165
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: Paris: pot on the fire -- Naples: pizza, pasta, pomodoro -- Tokyo: ramen and rice -- Oaxaca: maize, mole, mezcal -- Istanbul: the ottoman potluck -- Epilogue: national dish
"National Dish peels back the layers of myth, commercialization, and fetishization around the great world cuisines. In so doing, it brings us to a deep appreciation of how the country makes the food, and the food the country"--