Eating As I Go
Subtitle: Scenes from America And Abroad
Contributors: Carol Kitman (Photographer)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: July 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780813124025
Subjects: Cultural studies; Food & Drink / Cookery; Travel writing; Special Interest - General; Essays; Travel; Travel - General; General; USA; Cookery, International; United States - General; Anecdotes; Food
First sentence: My favorite egg foo yung is the one I ate religiously-in an ammonia-scented Cantonese dive on upper Broadway-every Yom Kippur during my high school years.
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 the meanings of 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."--Jacket.