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Anya Von Bremzen: National Dish
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
English - November 02, 2023 06:00 - 34 minutes - 27.9 MBArts Fiction food books cooking authors reading foodwriting climate sustainability Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Giulia Scarpaleggia: Cucina Povera
Next Episode: Bee Wilson: The Secret of Cooking
This week, Gilly is digging deeply into the construction of identtiy through the food with multi award-winning Russian writer Anya von Bremzen.
National Dish is a fascinating book which explores how certain foods become the cultural signifiers of France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Turkey. Mixing academic rigour with chats at bars and cook ups in local kitchens, she stirs up a load of our assumptions, but does she find the answer?
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