National Dish (paperback)

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Paperback edition. We all have an idea in our heads about what French food is—or Italian, or Japanese, or Mexican, or . . . But where did those ideas come from? Who decides what makes a national food canon? Recipient of three James Beard awards, Anya von Bremzen has written definitive cookbooks on Russian, Spanish, and Latin American cuisines, as well as her internationally acclaimed memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking . Now in National Dish , she sets out to investigate the truth behind