The Food Adventurers by Daniel E. Bender [EPUB: 1789147573]

• Title: The Food Adventurers: How Around-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat: How Round-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
• Author: Daniel E. Bender
• Pages: 352
• Publisher (Publication Date): Reaktion Books (1 July 2023)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10, ISBN-13 or ASIN: 1789147573
• Download File Format:EPUB

‘Bender traces the nearly two-hundred-year history of the tug-of-war between tourists’ professed desire for authenticity and their need for comfort and familiarity.’ – Paul Freedman, Yale University, author of American Cuisine

”This is a richly rewarding and exquisitely detailed book about food adventuring.’ – Krishnendu Ray, New York University, author of The Ethnic Restaurateur

From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise-liner’s luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the around-the-world adventure. The book looks at what tourists ate on these adventures, as well as what they avoided, and what kinds of meals they described in diaries, photographs and postcards.
Daniel E. Bender shows how circumglobal travel shaped popular fascination with world cuisines, and leads readers on a culinary tour from Tahitian roast pig in the 1840s, to the dining saloon of the luxury Cunard steamer Franconia in the 1920s, to InterContinental and Hilton hotel restaurants in the 1960s and ’70s.