The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789147575)

A delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.

From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise liner's luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the around-the-world adventure. The book looks at what tourists ate on these adventures, as well as what they avoided, and what kinds of meals they described in diaries, photographs, and postcards. Daniel E. Bender shows how circumglobal travel shaped popular fascination with world cuisines while leading readers on a culinary tour from Tahitian roast pig in the 1840s, to the dining saloon of the luxury Cunard steamer Franconia in the 1920s, to InterContinental and Hilton hotel restaurants in the 1960s and '70s.

Author: Daniel E. Bender
ISBN-10: 1789147573
ISBN-13: 9781789147575
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2023
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/07/2023