Best books about food to read in 2024
Food offers so much more than simple sustenance. In many ways, the cooking and eating of delicious meals offer cross-cultural communication.
When planning holidays, once flights and hotels have been booked, the first thing avid explorers focus on is finding the best possible meal in their destination. Not just to get over jet-lag, but because tucking into local cuisine is the best way to familiarise oneself with a new setting.
Anthony Bourdain famously said, “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.” Sharing a meal is often the best way to get to know a person or a
