National Dish: Around The World In Search of Food, History and The Meaning of Home

Anya von Bremzen

£12.99

Full of eye-opening tales and sparkling wit, National Dish explores the politics of national pride that tie food to place, untangling the myths and misunderstandings around some of the world’s most famous cuisines.

Paperback

Food writing > Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9781911590903

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Is there really such a thing as an authentic dish?

In a mouth-watering journey stretching from Paris to Tokyo, join award-winning food writer Anya von Bremzen as she chews over the legend of Margherita pizza, indulges in the craze for high-end noodles and digs into the postcolonial paradoxes of Mexico’s mole.

Sparklingly intelligent’ – Spectator

A delightfully engaged and engaging writer’ – Observer

So enlightening…so much fun to read’ – FT

A fast-paced, entertaining travelogue’ – New York Times

Playful, erudite and mouthwatering’ – Fuschia Dunlop

I couldn’t love this more’ – Nigella Lawson

Enchanting, fascinating and humorous’ – Claudia Roden

A Book of the Year in the FT, Guardian, Observer and on BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme

 

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm