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Introduction xiii
Part I United Kingdom and Australia
1 "I Hate My Job" 3
2 Eating Britain and Ireland 16
3 Sydney: Underwhelmed Down Under 30
4 Melbourne: Eating With the Devil 38
Part II Japan, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Finland
5 Japan: Eating Like a Sumo from Tokyo to Kyoto 45
6 Hong Kong: Feast Meets West 59
7 China: Great Expectorations 63
8 Gorging From the Three Gorges to Beijing 68
9 Into and Outta Mongolia 80
10 The Trans-Siberian Railway: Riding the Rails from Ulan Bator to St. Petersburg 84
11 Finland, Pertti, and the Prinsessa 92
Part III United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, U.S. West Coast, Scotland, Munich, and Iceland
12 America: Fed, White, and Blue 101
13 Chicago: Dog Eat Dog 108
14 Ann Arbor: The Cult of Zingerman's 112
15 Austin: Don't Mess With Texas 116
16 New Orleans: Simon is Big and Simon is Easy 121
17 Philadelphia: Stan and Lisa, Pat and Geno 126
18 That's So New York 129
19 Mexico: Mi Corazón 135
20 Buenos Aires: Love Me Tender 144
21 Brazil: There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here 148
22 San Francisco: An Apology 153
23 Giving Thanks in Santa Cruz 155
24 Three Men and a Still 162
25 Immer Essen in München 168
26 Iceland: Rotten Shark, Rotten Weather 172
Part IV Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, and India
27 Thailand: Sawadee 179
28 Call Me Ishmael 184
29 Hanoi: Crouching Down for Pho With Uncle Ho 188
30 A Filler in Manila 192
31 India: Crazy Beautiful 197
32 Mumbai The Unstoppable 203
33 Kolkata: Land Of My Fathers 212
34 The Darjeeling Express 218
Part V SouthAfrica, Mozambique, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, and Italy
35 South Africa: It's My Party and I'll Braai If I Want To 227
36 Senegal: Teranga 233
37 Off On the Road to Morocco 240
38 Spain: A Horseman Riding By 244
39 Istanbul: Eating Eytan's Way 249
40 Sicily: An Offer I Couldn't Refuse In Palermo 254
41 All Roads Lead To Rome 259
42 The End of the Road 263
Epilogue 267
Appendices 269
Acknowledgments 281
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Todd Menges
reviewed Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything on July 05, 2009
Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything
I liked the premise and most of his travelogue (especially about his childhood as a half-Welsh, half-Bengali Brit), but he comes off as snobby and pretentious. The writing could have been better; I was horrified at the sheer amount of typos. At times, I wasn't sure what his objective was, besides challenging himself and taking a break -- traveling the world in search of the weirdest, grossest national food? traveling the world in search of all the various ways meat, meat byproducts, and offal could be made? traveling the world in search of local food, local dishes, street dishes? looking for national stereotypes to be confirmed? And so on.
I could have done without his tiresome, simplistic, and Cold War-era portrait of the Russians as stern, grumpy, and unhelpful...people with such traits can be found everywhere in the world! I found it very surprising and disappointing that he went to Russia and didn't eat blini (aka blintzes), borshch (borscht), or pelmeni. Guess these famous Russian dishes weren't weird or offally enough for him...for shame!! Also surprised he didn't include South Korea in his Asia trip; he could have written about the bulgogi, kimchi, bibimbap, and the panchan (little dishes, like appetizers) that are served gratis at Korean restaurants.
Overall, a cute read if you like global cuisine and are looking for a quick read.
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