Food or Eating as I Go

Food: A Taste of the Road

Author: Richard Sterling

The one universal constant in travel is food. This award-winning collection proves that you can break bread with strangers and leave the table as friends, discover and understand cultures through their cuisine, enrich your travel experiences through cooking, and heighten your sense of taste and adventure. Wander through the pages and experience the world through your taste buds!

Table of Contents:

	Preface	xv
	Map	xviii
	Introduction	xxi
Part 1	Essence of Food
	Apron Strings	3
	Feast of the Pig	14
	A Language for Food	17
	A Tibetan Picnic	21
	A Man and His Chile	26
	Breakfast Without Toast	33
	Hungry Ghosts	37
	Goan Feast	52
	Burnt Offerings	54
	Salmon Head	58
	Food for Thought	61
	All Guns, No Butter	67
	A World Without Latkes	84
	Breaking Bread	90
	Bananas	94
	Slaying the Dragon	98
Part 2	Some Things To Do
	Tomatoes	119
	Etiquette Soup	128
	The Way of Iced Coffee	134
	India on an Empty Stomach	137
	Cafe Tacuba	147
	One Woman's Spice Route	155
	The Monsoon Cocktail	160
	Kenyan Barbeque	166
	Crustacean of Love	173
	That Gnawing Feeling	178
	Give unto Others	186
	Camaraderie	190
	Bush Tucker	194
	Drinking an 1806 Chateau Lafite	200
Part 3	Going Your Own Way
	Night of Oranges	215
	Baking Under the Table	218
	The Huntress	230
	Then I Slept	236
	Caller of Dolphins	244
	Spanish Guts	249
	Momos at Tashi's	257
	Backstage at Cafe Annie	265
	Si, Simpatica	280
	Eating up the Mekong	287
	Morocco Blue	297
	Fried Eggs and Chapatis	307
	Gastronome's Dream	314
	Waltz at the End of Earth	332
Part 4	In the Shadows
	Pass on the Primate	341
	Even Their Eyes Are Hungry	351
	The Laughter of Rul	359
	There Was a Train	366
	To Serve Man	378
	Liberation Day	385
	Dumpster Diving	394
Part 5	The Last Word
	Pilgrims All	411
	Books for Further Reading	417
	Index	421
	Index of Contributors	423
	Acknowledgements	425

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Eating as I Go: Scenes from America and Abroad

Author: Doris Friedensohn

"What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir, Doris Friedensohn takes eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on the meanings of cultural inclusion and what it means to our diverse nation. Enjoying couscous in Tunisia and khatchapuri (cheese bread) in the Republic of Georgia, she explores the ways strangers maintain their differences and come together." Friedensohn's subjects range from Thanksgiving at a Middle Eastern restaurant to fried grasshoppers in Oaxaca. Her wry dramas of the dining room, restaurant, market, and kitchen ripple with geopolitical, economic, psychological, and spiritual tensions. Eating as I Go is Friedensohn's distinctive combination of memoir, traveler's tale, and cultural commentary.

Library Journal

In an engaging series of memoir essays, Friedensohn (emeritus, women's studies/American studies, New Jersey City Univ.) shares with us her lifelong quest for new cultures, foods, and tastes. The cornucopia of the world's foods has excited and challenged her for the last 50 years. Her emphasis here is on ethnic foods, food markets, and entire neighborhoods where "American food" is foreign food. Today, many of us can travel to taste the world's foods without leaving town, but Friedensohn is not content to limit her essays to the United States; she also includes her food experiences in Tunisia, Austria, Mozambique, the Republic of Georgia, Nepal, and Mexico, to name just a few of the countries where she discovered the pleasures of strange foods and how they could bring people from different cultures together. Luckily, Friedensohn's sharp insights avoid academic pretension. Instead, her collection reveals the soul of an insightful and sympathetic woman, examining the relationship between culture and food. Recommended for American culture, travel, and food collections in large public and academic libraries.-Olga B. Wise, Austin, TX Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.