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| Eating as I Go: Scenes from America and Abroad | 
 enlarge | Author: Doris Friedensohn
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1641051
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0813191645
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3
EAN: 9780813191645
ASIN: 0813191645
Publication Date: July 21, 2006
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Product Description
What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir, Doris Friedensohn takes eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on cultural inclusion and what it means to our diverse nation. Enjoying couscous in Tunisia and khatchapuri (cheese bread) in the Republic of Georgia, she explores the ways strangers maintain their differences and come together. Friedensohn's subjects range from Thanksgiving at a Middle Eastern restaurant to fried grasshoppers in Oaxaca. Her wry dramas of the dining room, restaurant, market, and kitchen ripple with geopolitical, economic, psychological, and spiritual tensions. "Eating as I Go" is Friedensohn's distinctive combination of memoir, traveler's tale, and cultural commentary.
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College holdings strong in world culture or culinary history will find it a popular acquisition. December 12, 2006
EATING AS I GO: SCENES FROM AMERICA AND ABROAD maintains that a common meeting ground for different cultures is over the dinner table - and offers a blend of travelogue, memoir and culinary exploration to reinforce this idea. It's an autobiographical account of the author's travels and investigations into food culture around the world, and offers both destination and armchair readers a heady mix of cultural interactions and insights all linked with a fascination of and appreciation for food. General-interest collections as well as college holdings strong in world culture or culinary history will find it a popular acquisition.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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