From ‘North Korean Diplomacy Noodles’ to Jeppson’s Malört, an almost undrinkable liquor from Chicago, the book touches upon every corner of the globe.

And just think of all of the interesting conversations this book will generate if you leave it out on the coffee table for others to browse. I really liked this book, you get to explore quirky or hidden food/food related events and restaurants of different countries. A modern-day oyster vending machine in France shares a page with cocaine-laced wine of the late 19th century, as do a cow’s head barbecue in Texas and a potato doughnut from Utah.Talk about how Russians once preserved their milk with frogs, the Inuit tradition of fermenting birds in seal skin, or the Worm Courtship Festival of Indonesia. Ich schätze 95 % der aufgeführten Gerichte würde ich nicht essen, aber in dem Buch geht es auch viel mehr um die Geschichte hinter der Mahlzeit.

A] colorfully illustrated, totally entertaining tour through global cuisine, particularly the quirky sort. Learn about a mind-boggling array of Mexican candy, the bouncy meatballs of the Chaoshan region of China and a rare coffee, planted near giant mossy trees, in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park. This means that interesting foods are identified in the United States as often as they are in Africa, Japan or Brazil. Eating may be the most immersive, visceral travel experience,” wrote Wong and Thuras in the book’s introduction. In creating a magnum opus that manages to be simultaneously daring as well as fundamentally delicious, this is a culinary high-wire act of culinary anthropology that delivers on its promise and then some.

Spanning the globe with these venerated cookbooks, we cannot wait to help you travel without leaving your kitchen through these delicious foods! Armchair travelers and foodies will be left hungry, nostalgic, more knowledgeable about dishes from all over, and, most importantly, ready to try something different, whether it's found around the corner or across the world. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.