Eating As I Go: Scenes from America And Abroad [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Friedensohn, Doris

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ISBN 10: 0813191645 ISBN 13: 9780813191645

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 2006

Riassunto

What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir of a life shaped by the pleasures of the table, Doris Friedensohn uses eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on her exploration of food over fifty years and across four continents. Relishing couscous in Tunisia and khachapuri in the Republic of Georgia, she explores the ways strangers come together and maintain their differences through food. As a young woman, Friedensohn was determined not to be a provincial American. Chinese, French, Mexican, and Mediterranean cuisines beckoned to her like mysterious suitors. She responded, pursuing suckling pig, snails, baba ghanoush, tripe, jellyfish, and anything with rosemary or cumin. Each rendezvous with an unfamiliar food was a celebration of cosmopolitan living. Friedensohn's memories range from Thanksgiving at a Middle Eastern restaurant to the taste of fried grasshoppers in Oaxaca. Her wry dramas of the dining room, restaurant, market, and kitchen ripple with tensions -- political, religious, psychological, and spiritual. Eating as I Go is one woman's distinctive mélange of memoir, traveler's tale, and cultural commentary.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813191645
• ISBN 13: 9780813191645
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 249