The World Is a Kitchen: True Stories of Cooking Your Way Through Culture

Divided into five world regions, a volume of literary food tales follows such experiences as a writer's coconut bread-making lesson in an outdoor Polynesian kitchen, a cooking class during which a chef instructs Japanese housewives on how to create salsa, and an effort to impress one's in-laws by preparing snails, in a volume complemented by recipes and international cooking school travel information. Original.