Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe
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For pure pleasure, few experiences are as satisfying as a chance to explore the world’s fantastic culinary traditions and landmarksand here, in the latest title of our well loved series of illustrated travel gift books, you’ll find a fabulous itinerary of foods, dishes, markets, and restaurants worth traveling far and wide to savor.
On the menu is the best of the best from all over the globe: Tokyo’s freshest sushi; the spiciest Creole favorites in New Orleans; the finest vintages of the fantastic French wineries; the juiciest cuts of beef in Argentina; and much, much more. You’ll sample the sophisticated dishes of fabled chefs and five-star restaurants, of course, but you’ll also learn the simpler pleasures of the side-street cafés that cater to local people and the classic specialties that give each region a distinctive flavor.
Every cuisine tells a unique tale about its countryside, climate, and culture, and in these pages you’ll meet the men and women who transform scenery’s gift into a thousand gustatory delights. Hundreds of appetizing full-color illustrations evoke an extraordinary range of tastes and cooking techniques; a wide selection of recipes invites you to make as well as consume; sidebars give a wealth of entertaining information about additional sites to visit as well as the cultural importance of the featured food; while lively top ten lists take in topics from chocolate factories to champagne bars, from historic food markets to wedding feasts, harvest celebrations, and festive occasions of every kind. In addition, detailed practical travel information provides all the ingredients you’ll need to cook up a truly tasty experience for even the most demanding of traveling gourmets.
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Just flipped through this at the bookstore. Went directly to the chapter on Street Foods-like them. Any traveler knows that street food can form some of the sharpest experiences and memories. Not sure what the venerated National Geographics definition of Street food is but mine is “food typically eaten and cooked on/at/in a streetside vendor” usually missing four walls. If you had to pick a country whose cuisine does NOT epitomize street food the excellent ancient US of A would have to be right up there-don’t see many street stall vendors here, unless they’re Mexican, Turkish, Chinese or some additional ethnic food vendor. Right, right there’s the philly cheesesteak phenomenon and many regional others but street food is NOT ubiquitously American. Ok so NG is Americentric but how could any chapter worth it’s salt neglect to include shawarma, doner and the small street taqueria’s all over Mexico????? In my book the most insulting, is the entry on Falafel. Falafel and it’s sister Ta’miyya (ex- made from chickpeas and later from fava beans) are the omnipresent frequent street treat of nearly 165 million Arabs in Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. That doesn’t even count the 28 million in Iraq who eat it regularly. So NG choose to attribute this most legendary of middle eastern street food to Israel. It tries to ameliorate this by writing on the first line that Falafel comes from the Arab citizens of the country, but come on! Is NG getting into the political lobbying business now? The population of Israel is around 7.2 million and if you minus out the 20% arab population how can you possible attribute this food to Israel. Sure it’s well loved there but that’s just excellent sense. It was adopted by Israelis and defenders aver Jews from Arab lands brought it but it should be soundly noted that the majority of Jews from Arab lands that immigrated to Israel were from Tunisia, Morocco and Yemen, countries where Falafel is not traditionally eaten. Couldn’t NG just have said something like from the LEvant or listed all of the major countries, including Israel. Basically that’s like adage one Israeli (non-arab) is equal to 27.5 Arabs-a bit skewed I’d say. Then don’t even get me ongoing on how the chapter completely ignores the entire continent of Africa? Brazil-nope, Bulgarian banitsa-Ne, Vietnamese bahn mi-non, not one single item from the culinary melting pot of Singapore. It does give a nod to Arepas but attributes them ONLY to Venezuela; something that 45.6 million Columbians might find cause for war. I’m thouroughly underwhelmed by this slapdash but glossy mass market waste of trees!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
An enjoyable cross between a high-class cookbook and a Fodor travel guide. Fantastic photographs! Very comprehensive.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I gave this as a gift to my Mom who is 86. She can’t travel anymore, but likes going to all the places by reading. She likes it and says the photos are spectacular!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe © National Geographic Society 2009
By Nan C.
That travel bug you were sure airport hassle, terrorists, or a current stay on Poverty Row had killed, comes right back to haunt you as soon as you open this book. Supersized 12″L x 9.5″W and 1″ Deep (not counting sturdy hard take in), this five-pounder is no takalong guide. But what a gorgeous way to browse and dream! Be sure to take notes – in case.
National Geographic never shys away from sending contributors to wild parts of the world. Foodie destinations in most corners of the globe are covered, as though grim State Department Travel Warnings do not exist. Wonderful pointer of 313 non-gushy pages, gorgeous photos (of course), suggestions for international hotel chains, bed & breakfasts, campgrounds to stay near the goal – from gourmet cooking schools to street food vendor-specialists in world capitals and villages, including the USA, plus the occasional sidelined recipe. Persons Preserved Lemons somehow inspired me to get to Morocco ASAP! ###
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I absolutely like this book….I bought this book as a present for my spouse
who travels all the time around the world by the scenery of his business, and I
hoped that he can delight in his travel by taking the view of world food than being
stressful. But it’s me who fall in like with the book. I delight in this book so much.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5