On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta

On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta

A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.

Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where sheâ€™d lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europeâ€”and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husbandâ€™s blessing, she set out to discover the connections, both historical and personal, eating a path through western China and on into Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and across the Mediterranean.

The journey takes Lin-Liu into the private kitchens where the headscarves come off and women not only knead and simmer but also confess and confide. The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkeyâ€”their tiny size the measure of a brideâ€™s worthâ€”and end as tortellini in Italy. And as she stirs and samples, listening to the women talk about their lives and longings, Lin-Liu gains a new appreciation of her own marriage, learning to savor the sweetness of love freely chosen.
Country USA
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-07-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594487262

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-07-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594487262

On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta

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