Book description
Travelling from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul, she investigates the rapid decline of France's pot-au-feu, the misconstrued beginnings of pizza, the meeting of indigenous and European lineages in mole, and the complex legacy of multi-culturalism in a meze potluck.
"Never have we been more cosmopolitan…
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1 author picked National Dish as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Appealing to my inner foodie, this is a brilliant deconstruction of a number of different countries’ supposed national dishes and the truth behind their real nature. I especially enjoyed the debunking of pizza!
As someone who has travelled and eaten widely, I loved the descriptions of both national character and food origins covered in the book and found the authorial style both wry and highly readable.
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