Eating as I go
Subtitle: scenes from America and abroad
By: Doris Friedensohn ; photographs by Carol Kitman
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780813171401; 9780813137827
Subjects: Home Economics; COOKING; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Food; Travel; Anecdotes; Food Science; General; Health; Doris Friedensohn; International cooking
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
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Yom Kippurs at Yum Luk; A Kitchen of One's Own; Marriage Mexican Style; Dinner Party Protocols; The Penultimate Passover; Buddhist Delights; Thanksgiving in the Garden of Eden; Eat (Ethnic)! Eat (American)!; Photos and Narratives; Opakapaka and Poke, Too; Kitsch Ethnic; Kimchi Pride; The Real Senegal; The Politics of Couscous; The Best Cheese in the World; A View from the Fortress Polana; Dal Bhat at Pharping; Schloss Leopoldskron; Chapulines, Mole, and Four Pozoles; Georgia on my Mind; Cheesecake; Graduation