Part cookbook, part travelogue, this unusual book is designed to conjure up far-off lands and local dishes, from Rothschild dinner tables to Turkoman tents. The author has designed the text as a sketchbook evoking dishes, places and people encountered while on the move through life. She describes pushtu kebabs of lamb marinated in yoghurt and vinegar in Afghanistan, the rough brown bread with thick clotted cream offered at a Turkish wedding, kasha pilaffs of buckwheat, egg and wild mushrooms, cooked over a brushwood fire by partisans holding up the Orient Express, and many other dishes characterized by the author's exotic taste for romance and danger. Lesley Blanch has also written "The Wilder Shores of Love", "The Sabres of Paradise", "Journey into the Mind's Eye" and "Round the World in Eighty Dishes".
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A Total Delight,
By Corrie Scott (Barbados) - See all my reviews
This review is from: From Wilder Shores: The Tables of My Travel (Hardcover)
If you enjoy good story telling, humour and have a passion for food, this is joy. From trains in Russia where she consumed caviar for breakfast , lunch and dinner, to a wonderful fantasy tale about her favourite Christmas dinner, with people from time gone by coming to her house in all modes of transport (from carriages to flying carpets!) she delights us. Lesly Blanch takes us through modest comfort foods such as favourite nursery puddings to exotic picnics and does so with gustatorial abandon. When I am feeling jaded, I pick this book up , and one chapter later I am full of the joy of life and adventure. A total delight
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