NATIONAL DISH

AN ENTERTAINING AND STYLISH EXPLORATION OF FOOD AND NATIONALITY FROM AWARD WINNING WRITER ANYA VON BREMZEN This voyage into culinary myth making is essential reading I couldn t love it more Nigella Lawson A truly captivating and evocative book National Dish takes you on a food journey written with real warmth wit and perception Dan Saladino A sparklingly intelligent examination of and a meditation on the interplay of cooking and identity Spectator In National Dish award winning food writer Anya von Bremzen sets out to investigate the eternal cliché that we are what we eat Her journey takes her from Paris to Tokyo from Seville Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul She probes the decline of France s pot au feu in the age of globalisation the stratospheric rise of ramen the legend of pizza the postcolonial paradoxes of Mexico s mole the community essence of tapas and the complex legacy of multiculturalism in a meze feast Finally she returns to her home in Queens New York for a bowl of Ukrainian borscht a dish which has never felt more loaded or more precious As each nation s social and political identity is explored so too is its palate Rich in research colourful characters and lively wit National Dish peels back the layers of myth and