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

Jen Lin-Liu, Coleen Marlo

eAudio - 2013

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 she'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 Europe—and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husband'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 an...d simmer but also confess and confide. The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkey—their tiny size the measure of a bride's worth—and end as tortellini in...

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Published
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Main Authors
Jen Lin-Liu, Coleen Marlo
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size337 GB
ISBN9781452695600
Release Date8/5/2013