1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die
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The ultimate gift for the food lover. In the same way that 1,000 Places to See Before You Die reinvented the travel book, 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die is a joyous, informative, dazzling, mouthwatering life list of the world’s best food. The long-awaited new book in the phenomenal 1,000 . . . Before You Die series, it’s the marriage of an irresistible subject with the perfect writer, Mimi Sheraton—award-winning cookbook author, grande dame of food journalism, and former restaurant critic for The New York Times. 1,000 Foods fully delivers on the promise of its title, selecting from the best cuisines around the world (French, Italian, Chinese, of course, but also Senegalese, Lebanese, Mongolian, Peruvian, and many more)—the tastes, ingredients, dishes, and restaurants that every reader should experience and dream about, whether it’s dinner at Chicago’s Alinea or the perfect empanada. In more than 1,000 pages and over 550 full-color photographs, it celebrates haute and snack, comforting and exotic, hyper-local and the universally enjoyed: a Tuscan plate of Fritto Misto. Saffron Buns for breakfast in downtown Stockholm. Bird’s Nest Soup. A frozen Milky Way. Black truffles from Le Périgord. Mimi Sheraton is highly opinionated, and has a gift for supporting her recommendations with smart, sensuous descriptions—you can almost taste what she’s tasted. You’ll want to eat your way through the book (after searching first for what you have already tried, and comparing notes). Then, following the romance, the practical: where to taste the dish or find the ingredient, and where to go for the best recipes, websites included.
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Truthfully, I have to admit that I dreaded an impossibly thick book with hundrets of recipes I'd never manage to cook because the only thing I'm really good at are deserts.
What needless worry that was! What I found when I managed to open the file in the Adobe Digital Edition - after quite a lot of frustrated minutes during which I tried to somehow convert the acsm. file - was a beauty to behold.
So many delicious looking dishes I'd never seen before! So much food history and descriptions!
It was interesting to look through the dishes of my home country and note that I either haven't tried the dish yet or find it rather revolting. Well, that only goes for most of the meat dishes, sweet things are another matter entirely ^^
The sad part about the book is that you simply can't make some of the dishes at home like Fugu for various reasons. It is carefully sliced blowfish, served only by licensed chefs as even a little of the blowfish poison can be deadly.
Maybe that wasn't the best example to explain how Mimi Sheraton's book made me yearn for far away places, although the blowfish must truly be heavenly if people are willing to risk their lifes in order to get a taste of this delicacy.
There are so many fascinating, intriguing, delicious and appealing foods in here that it makes me want to go out there and try them all. This is the perfect addition to your travel and sightseeing books if you plan to visit foreign countries and taste foreign cultures.
Whaaaaat?? I hear you now. 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die? That's a book?
Yes, it is, my friend, and before you start squawking, you need to take a look at it. It's a book about all the best foods you should try. And it's not just strange things like fried grasshoppers and calf brains either. It will put you in-the-know about what these dishes you've always heard about actually are. It's browsable, too, so you needn't worry yourself about reading it straight through.
