Review
As addictive as the food that Harry Rolnick describes. Great food-writing requires a sense of humor, and Rolnick leavens every page with hilarious conversations and outrageous puns. His are the observations of one who never met a country whose pretensions he couldn?t deflate with the prick of pen or chopstick. I couldn?t stop laughing. -- Stan Sesser; Former restaurant critic San Francisco Chronicle; Author, The Lands Of Charm And Cruelty: Travels In Southeast Asia
Even if it is still moving, Harry Rolnick will taste it. Fearless, he is Supermouth to Anthony Bourdain?s modest appetites. This punny memoir of exotic eating in unlikely places is full of Pepto-Bismal antics -- Gael Greene; Contributing Editor, New York Magazine; Author, Insatiable: Tales From A Life of Delicious Excess
Even if it is still moving, Harry Rolnick will taste it. Fearless, he is Supermouth to Anthony Bourdain?s modest appetites. This punny memoir of exotic eating in unlikely places is full of Pepto-Bismal antics -- Gael Greene; Contributing Editor, New York Magazine; Author, Insatiable: Tales From A Life of Delicious Excess
Product Description
An intriguing collection of stories and exotic recipes collected by the author during his travels in Asia, East Europe and Africa as food critic and travel writer. Transporting the readers to bizarre lands, dishes and customs, Spice Chronicles runs the gamut from cannibalism in Syria, insect curry in Thailand and drunken feast in Mongolia to Kurdish restaurant in the American Midwest.It includes odes, parodies and poems about food and drink written while waiting for one s meal. Both recipes and narratives circumnavigate the globe and excite the sense of fantasy and taste.
