![]() Snails and truffles and gallons of rosé, oh my! After a childhood spent enduring British cooking, Mayle fell hard for France’s culinary culture. The breezy memoir-cookbook will make you want to head to the tropics-or at least your kitchen-to try chilled curried pumpkin soup or toothsome coconut-custard tarts.īon Appetit: Travels with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew through France(2001), by Peter Mayle. As an intrepid couple pilots their sailboat, the Receta (Spanish for recipe), around the Caribbean, they dig into local delicacies along the way. ![]() The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover’s Caribbean Adventure(2010), by Anne Vanderhoof. Each chapter starts with a traditional recipe (oxtail soup, turkey molé) tied to the storyline. Set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico, this novel blends magical realism with food sensualism to tell the tragicomic story of Tita De La Garza, a rancher’s daughter with mad kitchen skills-but no luck at love. Like Water for Chocolate (1989), by Laura Esquivel. That comes from a place, as it has for thousands of years, from a soil that is a testament to its ancient history.” Ultimately, he walks away having “learned the taste of good food. After befriending the always great (now late) French chef Michel Richard, the Italophile-turned-Francophile writer winds up at a cooking school in Lyon studying the country’s gastronomic secrets. Hungry for more travel reading? Check out these books on great road and rail trips.ĭirt(2020), by Bill Buford. He even brought back kale from Austria-Hungary, inadvertently powering a trend more than a century after his death. This visceral biography traces the adventures of 19th-century botanist David Fairchild as he travels the world sourcing now-beloved plant varietals for American farmers, including peaches, avocados, and cashews. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats(2018), by Daniel Stone. The over-the-top misadventures are a hilarious contrast to overly picturesque and highly caloric travelogues set in the country, including Under A Tuscan Sun or Eat, Pray, Love. Razor-sharp wit, abject absurdity, and ridiculous recipes (Garlic and Fernet Branca Ice Cream!?) power this farcical novel as it romps through the Italian countryside. Just don’t start reading on an empty stomach you might end up taking a bite of your book.Ĭooking with Fernet Branca (2004), by James Hamilton Paterson. This is the latest entry (or perhaps, entrée?) in our series “Around the World in Books,” and it serves up tomes with prose so detailed and deliciously wrought, you can almost taste what’s on their pages. From culinary memoirs (with recipes on the side) to a comic novel that gorges on Italian cooking, these 10 books should satisfy your hunger for words-and the food destinations beyond your doorstep. When you can’t eat your way around the world, the next best thing might be pulling a stool up to your kitchen counter and cracking open a globetrotting, gastro-obsessed book. No big-trip tickets? No reservations at a hip new bistro? No problem.
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