Burma : rivers of flavor / Naomi Duguid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duguid, Naomi.

Contributor:

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Burmese.

Cooking (Spices).

Food--Burma.

Food.

Burma--Social life and customs.

Burma.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 372 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

New York : Artisan, [2012]

Summary:

The best way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its food. This book shows the splendors of an ancient and wonderful country, untouched by the outside world for generations, whose simple recipes delight and satisfy and whose people are among the most gracious on earth.

Burma is culturally rich and complex in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in its extraordinary food culture. It's at the crossroads between the food of the great Indian subcontinent (to its west) and the food of Southeast Asia (to its east), with a dash of Chinese influence (from the north), making it an amazing place in-between. With simple recipes for food that manages to be elegant and earthy at the same time, plus stories of a place and a people that inspired Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, and George Orwell ... The book features photographs throughout--of the finished dishes, of people, of a hauntingly beautiful land--as well as travel tips, a history of Burma, extensive glossaries, and a bibliography.

Contents:

The place and the people

Flavors and dishes

Burma basics

Salads

Soups

Mostly vegetables

Fish and seafood

Chicken

Beef and pork

Condiments and sauces

Mostly rice

Noodles

Sweet treats

Burma over time

Traveling in Burma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

ISBN:

9781579654139

1579654134

OCLC:

774852430