Conference & Book Review
Railway Dining
A conference on
the history of dining on railways is to be held in Tours, France on 16 and 17
December 2014, papers will cover railways throughout the world. Ideal for anyone
who’s idea of heaven is sipping a fine red over a steak-frites and watching the
scenery whizz by.
Contact : jean-pierre.williot@univ-tours.fr
or laurent.tissot@unine.ch
or Michele Merger mi.merger@virgilio.it
A Fork in the Road : Tales of food, pleasure & discovery on the road
Editor James Oseland 2013 Lonely Planet ISBN 9781743219775 (Hbk)
Thirty four stories on the joys and other wise of food and travel
written by food obsessed writers and chefs from Neil Perry, Curtis Stone,
through Madhur Jaffery to Frances Mayes and Michael Pollan. From the delightful
first encounter Sandi Tan has when she eats the first food ever cooked by her
father’s mistress. “ the rice was mushy, clearly budget-grain and cooked with a
drunkard’s care” and “ the squid’s actual taste ... were immaterial, What
struck me was that this child-woman had cooked me something cool and different –
and seemed mightly tickled at herself for having done it. Chilli-burned, I scarfed
down her joy, her unbridled exuberance, and asked for more.” To Tuscany (of
course) the Amazon, Colombo and Greece these writer take us on an entertaining
and , not always, mouth watering, adventures. The quality of the writing is
excellent and, to quote editor James Oseland, each of the essays “says
something ineffable about how we process and remember tastes and sensations,
and about how they alter our view of the world”.
Max Dingle 27 February 2014
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