Postcards from Kitchens Abroad

by Diana Holuigue | Travel |
ISBN: 1864364904 Global Overview for this book
Registered by chicklitfan of Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand on 11/9/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by chicklitfan from Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand on Monday, November 9, 2009
Looked interesting but I had to cull my Mt TBR or buy another bookshelf so out it goes!

Released 14 yrs ago (11/9/2009 UTC) at Macs Brewbar & Restaurant in Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand

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Releasing at tonights meetup

Journal Entry 3 by Captainsdoxy at Waikanae, Wellington Province New Zealand on Monday, November 11, 2019
Caught at Bxing meetup, but not back in 2009!

Some interesting anecdotes, some attractive looking recipes but it did make me feel extremely unadventurous, as there were an awful lot of recipes that I wouldn't touch with a bargepole :-)

Journal Entry 4 by Captainsdoxy at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Monday, November 11, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (11/11/2019 UTC) at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom

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Sending on to a fellow foodie who might have a more adventurous palate than me. Let me know you think. :-)

Journal Entry 5 by blackwidow1971 at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Yeah, I'm definitely more adventurous than Captain's Doxy. Although she's eaten spider and guinea pig, which I haven't (but I've eaten ants - they were horrible)

Journal Entry 6 by blackwidow1971 at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Monday, February 3, 2020
I was really looking forward to reading this, as it combined two passions of mine - food and travel. However, it promised more than it delivered. Some of the chapters were based on her going to fancy, expensive restaurants run by her friends. Some were quite interesting. The one fascinating chapter was the one about Cambodia in about 1967 and I would have liked that to be longer.

The included recipes were variable - obviously those from the fancy restaurants I read out of interest, knowing I wouldn't make them in a million years, and a lot required local ingredients, but a few looked good and I may try them.

Her editor needs to be shot - "orange flour water" was one error that stuck out and "Imam Biyaldi" does not translate as "The Emperor Swooned" - it's "The Priest Swooned" (or fainted, take your pick, but an Imam is not an emperor).

However, nothing matches the absolute monstrous clanger of the chapter entitled "Second City" about France's "second city", Lyon. Why, she says, do people go to Paris, first city of France, but never to its second? Good point. Except that Lyon isn't, and never has been, the second city of France. That's Marseille. Whoops.

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