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The Food Traveler’s Handbook by [Jodi Ettenberg]

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The Food Traveler's Handbook provides a compelling argument for using food as a primary focus in discovering the world. Using this handbook as a guide, you will learn how to eat safely in developing countries, source cheap but delicious streetside meals and discover how to make food a tool for understanding a new place and connecting to its local culture.
The Food Traveler's Handbook is part of The Traveler's Handbook series and offers:

How to discover the world through food.
Delicious stories to learn from.
How to use food-specific themes to plan long and short-term trips.
Ways to source cheap, safe meals in developing countries.
Tips and tricks from chefs, food writers and long-term travelers.
Ethical considerations when eating in far-flung destinations.
Guidelines tailored to travelers with special dietary needs such as food allergies (celiac disease, nut allergies, etc) or vegetarians.
Packing, planning and learning resources for the food traveler.

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September 14, 2012
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"A great resource and enticing companion for anyone who likes to eat and to travel. Jodi's handbook is a reminder that if we stay open to the possibilities, food can be a gateway to expanding our horizons wherever we are."- Naomi Duguid, James Beard award-winning writer, author of Burma: Rivers of Flavor
"If you're looking to read one book about how to eat out while traveling, this is it. Jodi understands that it isn't just about the food. It's also a quest, a chance to create an adventure, a memory, and a connection to the local culture."- Tyler Cowen, author of An Economist Gets Lunch
Jodi Ettenberg provides a personal and practical road map to understanding the part food plays in cultures and how to better experience those cultures through street-level eats. A bonus: she guides readers in navigating the perils of potentially dicey food, favoring caution instead of fear."- Spud Hilton, travel editor, San Francisco Chronicle

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I grew up in a household that was not focused on food. We ate - did we ever! - but spicy foods and creative cooking were not part of my childhood. It was only when I started traveling that I realized how varied foods around the world could be. Each region had a distinct way of cooking and spicing, and a geographic food footprint to call its own. Discovering food by eating it abroad went far beyond the international restaurants I sampled growing up in Montreal and later while working as a lawyer in New York.

I traveled for shorter periods on vacations from my law firm, but I wanted to see more. Once I had saved up enough funds to quit for a year of travel, I left New York to see the world for myself. That one year morphed into two, then three and now almost four-and-a-half years. As I traveled, my journey shifted perceptibly from a focus on places and people, to a focus on those places and people through their food.

When I left New York, I started a website, Legal Nomads, to chronicle my misadventures and keep my friends and family apprised of my whereabouts. Over the years I've been thrilled to see the site grow into its own, with a passionate community of readers who also love to experience the world. And they love their food.

As I continued to focus more and more on the anthropology of what we eat (and why we eat it), the idea of a food book took form. I received emails from worried travelers who wanted to eat at street stalls but feared becoming ill. At the same time, I found myself encouraging others who did not focus on food to use eating as a guide, a way of understanding a new place.

The Food Traveler's Handbook explores both of these sentiments. It addresses why food matters and how travelers can explore the world through the many ingredients we find on our plates. It also tackles very valid safety concerns, from sourcing fresh eats to finding market stalls that serve hygienic meals. The book focuses primarily on cheaper food in developing countries, but its principles and tips can be applied worldwide.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009WVI0T6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Full Flight Press; 1st edition (September 14, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 14, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 11606 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 132 pages

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Jodi Ettenberg was born in Montreal and has been eating her way around the world since April 2008. She is also the founder of Legal Nomads (www.legalnomads.com), which chronicles worldwide travel and food adventures. Prior to founding Legal Nomads in 2008, Jodi worked for several years as a corporate lawyer in New York City. She gets the shakes when she goes too long without eating sticky rice.

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Keith Lee

Great Guide On Exploring Culture & Food

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2012

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The Food Traveler's Handbook is a guide for people traveling to far-flung corners of the globe and understand that there are real people, living real lives in these other countries. There is more to be had than tourist hubs, hotels, and pre-packaged corporate restaurants. The old adage about dive bars is approriate:

"In a true dive bar, you're worried about getting stabbed. In a "dive-themed" bar, you likely want to stab everyone else."

The Handbook is largely about 3 things:

-Good food
-Cheap food
-Getting the two above safely

The book is born from the desires of former corporate lawyer, Jodi Ettenberg, to explore the world through the canvas of food. Jodi left the world of Big Law in order to pursue her hunger for world travel; chronicling her experiences at Legal Nomads for the past 4 years.

As noted above, Handbook is mostly about good, cheap food. Jodi points out what most food lover's already know: very often the best food is not found in nice restaurants. Personally, I've always referred to this as "shack theory." If you're in an out-of-the-way area and come upon a ramshackle looking place serving food-but the parking lot is full-you should probably stop and eat there. People aren't there for the location. Or the decor. Or that it's somewhere cool to be. They're there for the food.

Jodi lays out how to explore new countries and cultures in pursuit of flavorful, local cuisine. Handbook lays out why cheap is often better, and gives good information on how to find and bond with local food lovers. Jodi has been solo for most of her traveling so also brings to bear lots of nuances and tips that only an experienced traveler would have when it comes to safely going off the beaten path in search of food.

But what sets Handbook apart-what makes it compelling-is the telling of the tale. Anyone can give such simple advice: Eat good, cheap food. People understand that, it's straightforward. Big deal. Who needs an entire book about it?

But very rarely does simple, straightforward advice compel people to action. It doesn't win hearts and minds. People gloss over it, are indifferent They've heard it all before. To catch people's attention you need a hook-a tale to tell-and Jodi has them in spades. Throughout Handbook, Jodie interweaves her own experiences in China, Malaysia, Russia (and more) into the book, creating a compelling narrative of exploration that makes the reader want to embark on their own culinary adventures. Handbook makes the reader want to do something. This is the highest form of persuasive writing.

It's a good thing that Jodi left corporate law because such a talent would be a waste there - but not here. Telling a story that motivates people to action is difficult thing and it's a pleasure to see it in action when you come across it.

If you want to learn how to explore a foreign food culture, I can't imagine a better choice.

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L. Gibbeson

Discovering the World Through Food-Indeed!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 6, 2013

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Until I stumbled upon Jodi Ettenberg's accounts of her adventures, I'd never given much consideration to food while traveling. It was generally my last consideration of any given travel day-more an inconvenience that interrupted my adventure. Usually, I ate en route to my next destination, with little thought for what I was eating, its history or the social aspects of taking a meal in a foreign country.

Then I read The Food Traveler's Handbook. Part practical guidebook, part food lover's diary; reading the Food Traveler's Handbook is like having a lively conversation with a friend over a great meal on the road. From stories around meal based connections with locals, to advice on food and travel safety, Jodi provides a practical and entertaining travel guide that reminds us that food is not only for sustenance, but a means by which to connect with local people and experience new cultures.

The book contains not only great tips on how to eat inexpensively while experiencing the best the countries have to offer, but other practical tips on things like basic travel safety (because of Jodi I now carry a plastic door stop with me when I travel). There's even a guide to local food etiquette that is not only intriguing, (how many people know the proper way to drink coffee in a Bedouin tent?), but useful for blending in with (and not offending) local hosts. Furthermore, for travelers with food allergies, there are tips that make navigating finding food on the road a little bit easier.

Fair warning to readers: this book will not only make you hungry, it will make you want to pack your bags immediately. Because of one picture of a tagine dish in Morocco, the country is now on my list of "must visits", a list that seemed to get longer with every next picture (particularly as Jodi and I appear to share a love of the soups in SE Asia).

I highly recommend this book for both active and aspiring travelers. If you are a veteran, you'll enjoy Jodi's stories and make good use of her food related tips, and if you are an aspiring traveler, this book will give you some practical tips for being on the road, and continue to inspire you to head out the door. Just make sure to go hungry!

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Linda Wainwright

Met All My Expectations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 4, 2013

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I've been a fan of Jodi Ettenberg's blog for a while now. She writes beautifully, and whilst this book doesn't really give her the scope to prove that, I mention it because her blog, Legal Nomads, is well worth reading for her writing, let alone to fuel your wanderlust! Actually the book made me smile because I guess it shows the other side of her character - she's a lawyer by training - and it tackles its topic in the logical and succinct way I would assume a lawyer to think! That is, however, not to say it's dry! Jodi's enthusiasm for both food and travel bubbles over all the way through, and the tips will be very useful for both experienced travelers as well as newbies. Tips include eating safely, planning your trip and advice for those with allergies or specific dietary requirements. There's also a generous list of resources (book, websites, blogs etc) for further reading.

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Christian

Expand your mind and your waistline...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 23, 2013

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Jodi Ettenberg's Food traveller's handbook is an evocative and practical distillation of hard lessons and culinary highs experienced over a decade and then some of long-haul adventures. There's a patina of authenticity flowing through her writing which stems from both the grand scale of this former lawyer's escapades and the author's changing travel persona - from vacationer through round-the-world backpacker and onto location independent legal nomad.

Although the meat of the book is, as the title suggests, in the form of a "handbook", it is the bite-sized chunks of our guide's personal food memories which are the highlights here - reflective vignettes on the joys of being a global food citizen. Kicking off with "Laos Tapas" on the pavements of Luang Prabang, by the end we've eaten our way around the world from Moroccan spices in France to cheesy Corn bread in Columbia and food and fashion in Burma.

Jodi's skill - the literary spice which lifts this above standard food porn - is her expression of how the street food experience, its rituals and the human interactions they demand allow each serendipitous snack to become a pathway into a better understanding of where you are and the locals you're meeting. Plus, she's recruited fellow travel writers to add more great tales and tips from Zambia, India and Mexico.

These are great pieces which ring true - having collected a few passport stamps myself, I'm on the same page of the menu as Jodi as to the importance of diving into local food for the deepest, most satisfying of travel experiences.

For me, her insights were where I got most out of my reading, but this is a "handbook" after all and our author's lawyerly discipline eventually comes to the fore, with informative sections on every possible food-related issue. Whatever travel experience a reader might be considering - from one-week vacay to global epic, there's a ton of info here - savvy suggestions on making smart food choices to avoid illness as well as a personal take on why allergies and food intolerances didn't stop the author in her tracks and won't stop you. Jodi even flags some important ethical choices readers might need to consider.

The Food traveler's handbook is a very modern tome - a paperback is available for the dead tree fetishists, but I imagine most of target audience will pick this up via Amazon Kindle and with colour photos and info panels throughout, it's made for the modern tablet audience. Lengthwise, we're way past a longform article but not quite in sight of a coffee table book - there's a lot of stuff here people, and it's well worth the price of admission.

If you're lucky enough to be visiting a new and foreign culture anytime soon, or know someone who is, then get this book - it's keenly priced and worth every cent. Buy the book, get outside your culinary comfort zone and expand your mind as well as your waistline...

Kyle Niiya

A must for anyone who likes food and travelling... who doesn't?

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 3, 2013

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This book is essential for anyone who like me, loves food and travel, but also has some fear when combining the two. I have been afraid of visiting certain areas of the world because I have been unsure what my next meal would be. The Food Traveler's Handbook gives me confidence that with the right preparation and precautions, there's no reason why I can't go almost anywhere. With her descriptive snapshots of some of her destinations and meals, Jodi has made me realize how much I'm missing out on because of my fear. She manages to sum up her experiences so that our learning curve will be less painful and more enjoyable when it comes to eating around the world. It has inspired me to jump on a plane and pick out a new travel destination. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Pam MacNaughtan

Essential guide for travelling foodies

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 4, 2014

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Jodi's passion for food (and her stunning food photos) have made me hungry on several occasions. In this handbook Jodi breaks down things like food safety, but still shows her passion for cheap eats and street food. Highly recommended.

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Pocket Rocket

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 28, 2013

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Great little Reference and good tips from a Pro. Very compact and an easy read. I would recommend to those thinking of travelling the world. The author certainly has and IS!

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