Michael Booth

El periodista Michael Booth ha vivido entre los escandinavos durante más de diez años y se ha sentido cada vez más frustrado con la visión color de rosa de esta parte del mundo ofrecida por los medios occidentales. En este oportuno libro abandona su hogar adoptivo de Dinamarca y se embarca en un viaje por los cinco pases nórdicos para descubrir quiénes son estas curiosas tribus, los secretos de su éxito y, lo más intrigante de todo, lo que piensan unos de otros. ¿Por que; los daneses son tan felices, a pesar de tener los impuestos más altos? ¿Los finlandeses tienen realmente el mejor sis- tema educativo? ¿Son los islandeses tan feroces como a veces aparentan? ¿Cómo están gastando los noruegos su fantástica riqueza petrolera? ¿Y por qué todos odian a los suecos?

Copenhague es la más cosmopolita y accesible de las capitales escandinavas. Este oasis urbano alberga una excelente oferta de museos, galerías de arte, monumentos, calles históricas y zonas ideales para pasear, dejarse sorprender con las joyas de la Corona o explorar las tiendas y la animada vida nocturna de Nrrebro...Incluye:a Seccion con propuestas imprescindiblesa Mapa general desplegable a todo color y mapas detallados para cada barrioa Los lugareños desvelan algunos de los mejores secretos de la ciudadInformacion completa de los barrios: Radhuspladsen, Tivoli, Stroget y alrededores, Slotsholmen, de Nyhavn a Kastellet, Christianshavn, Islands Brygge, Norrebro, Osterbro, de Norreport a Osterport, Vesterbro y Frederiksberg

His account of their foodie family road trip establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson. New York TimesJapan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West, as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet.Food and travel writer Michael Booth sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan and he and his young family travel the length of the country - from bear-infested, beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested, seaweed-loving Okinawa.What do the Japanese know about food? Perhaps more than anyone else on earth, judging by this fascinating and funny journey through an extraordinary food-obsessed country.Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for the best book on food and travel.

Un fascinante, divertido e irreverente viaje culinario a través de Japón. Si te gusta la comida japonesa, este libro te encantará. Japón es el país que mejor ha sabido exportar su cultura y costumbr

The next Bill BrysonNew York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In search of an answer, Michael Booth journeys across East Asia to explore the mutual animosity that frequently threatens to draw the world into all-out war. From misjudged cake decorations to electoral meddling, contradictory origin myths to territorial disputes, this deeply researched and hugely entertaining book shows that no conflict is too small to keep the fires of neighbourly hostility burning.A fine summary of East Asian cultures and conflicts...useful, fact-packed and readableSpectator

**Shortlisted for the 2017 André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards****Shortlisted for the 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award**The next Bill Bryson.’ New York TimesFood and travel writer Michael

The next Bill Bryson. New York TimesWorld-weary, distracted and more often than not the worse for wine, Michael Booth really needed to make some major changes to his life. Instead, he embarks on an over-ambitious, self-indulgent attempt to write the definitive book on Indian food, taking his wife and two young children in tow.They criss-cross India, from mist-shrouded Delhi to Mumbai and the slums of Dharavi, meeting the locals and samplying different cuisines along the way. However, his plan is derailed as he spirals deeper into his metaphysical middle-aged malaise, finally unravelling amid the sweltering heat of the Keralan backwaters.Fortunately, his wife takes control and enrolls her disintegrating husband in a hardcore yoga boot camp, enlisting a wise meditation guru who helps him chart a path towards enlightenment. But will Booths cynicism and untrammelled appetites prove his undoing? Can he regain his balance, conquer his anxieties and face up to life as a husband and father?

The next Bill Bryson. New York TimesHaving been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, Michael Booth discovered one of the great secrets of travel literature - Andersens A Poets Bazaar - a fascinating travelogue through a Europe on the cusp of revolution, by an author who invented childrens literature. He discovered, too, his chance to escape Denmark.In 1840 Andersen was also desperate to flee, writing as he sailed: It is just as well I am leaving, my soul is unwell! In Germany he was enraptured both by steam travel and the fiery Franz Liszt. In sultry Naples this latent bisexual wrestled with his erotic demons before travelling to Athens (little more than a village), seeing the dervishes dance in Istanbul, and sailing home up the Danube. Booth follows him every step of the way, reflecting on Andersens life, work and pathological self-obsession, encountering his own cast of characters, from an accommodating Hamburg prostitute to a bemused Danish Ambassador to the first ever female dervish, who whisks him off to meet her guru.

His account of their foodie family road trip establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson. New York TimesJapan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West, as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet.Food and travel writer Michael Booth sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan and he and his young family travel the length of the country - from bear-infested, beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested, seaweed-loving Okinawa.What do the Japanese know about food? Perhaps more than anyone else on earth, judging by this fascinating and funny journey through an extraordinary food-obsessed country.Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for the best book on food and travel.

The next Bill Bryson. New York TimesMichael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs and their on the table in five minutes recipes. He wants to learn how to cook properly, so he burns his cookery books and, together with his young family, heads for a new life in Paris - reasoning that, if anyone can be trusted to make food complicated, its the French.Embarking on the ultimate foodies fantasy, he enrols at the worlds most famous cooking school, Le Cordon Bleu, where wise and battle-scarred French chefs commence their transformation of him into a professional cook.Along the way Booth shares the insider tips and secret techniques of classical cuisine. His odyssey takes him from trauma to triumph, ending in the white-hot heat of the Michelin-starred kitchen of the greatest chef in France.

The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another.Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? In The Almost Nearly Perfect People Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are, and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isnt easy being Scandinavian.

A funny, fearless tour behind Scandinavias polished image. Michael Booth has long been perplexed by strange paradoxes and character traits of the people of his adopted homelands and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic and hygge that has engulfed the rest of the world. From his home in Denmark, he travels through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland to uncover the truth behind the myth of the happiest people on Earth. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterised by suffocating parochialism and populated by extremists of various shades. Part travelogue, part social investigation, and wholly entertaining, Booth asks tough questions about what happiness really means, how culture shapes wellbeing, and what the rest of the world can - and cant - learn from the North. The next Bill Bryson New York Times Beautifully observed and very funny Rory Stewart Comprehensive and occasionally downright hilarious Mariella Frostrup, Observer

Un libro de viajes ingenioso, informativo y popular sobre los países escandinavos y cómo pueden no ser tan felices o tan perfectos como suponemos.El periodista Michael Booth ha vivido entre los escandinavos durante mas de diez años y ha ido sintiendose cada vez mas frustrado ante la vision color de rosa de esta parte del mundo ofrecida por los medios occidentales. En este oportuno libro parte desde Dinamarca, su hogar adoptivo, para embarcarse en un viaje por los cinco paises nordicos y descubrir quienes son estas curiosas tribus, los secretos de su exito y, lo mas intrigante de todo, lo que piensan unos de otros.¿Por que los daneses son tan felices, a pesar de tener los impuestos mas altos? ¿Los finlandeses tienen realmente el mejor sistema educativo del mundo? ¿Son los islandeses tan feroces como a veces aparentan? ¿Como estan gastando los noruegos su fantastica riqueza petrolera? ¿Y por que todos odian a los suecos?Michael Booth explica quienes son los escandinavos, como difieren y por que, cuales son sus caprichos y debilidades, y explora por que estas sociedades se han convertido en tan exitosas y modelicas para el mundo. A lo largo de este recorrido surge una imagen mas matizada, a menudo mas oscura, de una region plagada de tabus, caracterizada por un parroquialismo sofocante y poblada por extremistas de diversos matices.