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Lonely Planet The Food Book
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
A journey through the great cuisines of the world.
Markets, street food, fine dining or raucous family feasts - whether you travel to eat, or you're a foodie tied to your kitchen chair at home, you'll find plenty in these pages to satisfy your lust for new flavours, textures and aromas.
Journey through countries with the richest and proudest culinary traditions. Explore each country's essential produce, defining dishes, and culture of preparing, eating and celebrating with food. Discover the best fare to sample, and even the odd recipe to try at home.
Author: Lonely Planet
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.
TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times
'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
A journey through the great cuisines of the world.
Markets, street food, fine dining or raucous family feasts - whether you travel to eat, or you're a foodie tied to your kitchen chair at home, you'll find plenty in these pages to satisfy your lust for new flavours, textures and aromas.
Journey through countries with the richest and proudest culinary traditions. Explore each country's essential produce, defining dishes, and culture of preparing, eating and celebrating with food. Discover the best fare to sample, and even the odd recipe to try at home.
Author: Lonely Planet
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.
TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times
'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
888 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2013
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3,676 books886 followersOUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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November 17, 2014
Amazing! It is a trip around the world in food and not to be missed! If you like to travel or simply enjoy traveling in books, this is the one for you! I especially loved the little into to each country, which tells you what the country is known for, imports, what to devour and what to avoid! I'm pretty sure the "what to avoid" would go without question, but then again, I have a very adventurous daughter who would go to China and say "Hey, let's try the Camel Hump Soup!", so this section is quite helpful in that regard.
I enjoyed the paragraphs about the traditions, etiquette and holidays also. There is not much to dislike about this wonderful book!
Cannot recommend highly enough!
I enjoyed the paragraphs about the traditions, etiquette and holidays also. There is not much to dislike about this wonderful book!
Cannot recommend highly enough!
May 25, 2024
Buku "Food Book" ini, sesuai subjudulnya, membawa kita dalam perjalanan kuliner luar biasa ke 47 negara di seluruh dunia.
Belasan negara Eropa mengawali buku ini, membahas berbagai daerah per negara beserta budaya, tradisi, dan etiket makan. Tentu juga buku ini membahas berbagai jenis makanan khas tiap negara. Selain itu, jenis toko yang menjual produk makanan dan minuman khas negara tersebut juga dijelaskan, berikut dengan teknik masak khas masing-masing negara.
Dari benua Eropa, pembaca dibawa bergeser ke Timur Tengah dan Afrika Utara, kemudian berlanjut ke Asia, Pasifik, dan memutar kembali ke wilayah Amerika, dan berakhir di benua Afrika.
Indonesia dibahas dari halaman 632 sampai halaman 655. Mengingat tim penyusun tidak berasal dari Indonesia, dan saya tidak tahu proses penyusunannya, dan sedalam apa riset yang mereka lakukan, pengaruh budaya makan yang dibahas hanya dari sisi Cina, walau sangat banyak pengaruh budaya lain di budaya makan Indonesia, setidaknya dari pengaruh Belanda dan Arab. Sambal juga masih dipadankan dengan "chilli sauce", walau bentuk sambal sangat beragam. Mungkin hal ini juga terjadi karena buku ini diterbitkan pada tahun 2013. Saat ini lema "sambal" sudah masuk di kamus Merriam-Webster.
Secara keseluruhan, buku ini sangat menarik terutama bagi pencinta kuliner seperti saya. Mendapatkan buku ini sebagai hadiah sangat menyentuh hati dan saya akan menyimpan buku ini dekat di hati saya.
This "Food Book", as the sub-title suggests, takes us on an extraordinary culinary journey to 47 countries around the world.
Some European countries begin the book, discussing each region along with its culture, traditions and dining etiquette. Of course, the book also discusses the different types of food that each country specializes in. In addition, the types of stores that sell the country's specialty food and beverage products are also described, along with each country's unique cooking techniques.
From the Europe continent, the reader is taken to the Middle East and North Africa, then on to Asia, the Pacific, and circling back to the America, and ending on the African continent.
Indonesia is covered from page 632 to page 655. Since the team of authors are not from Indonesia, and I don't know the process of compiling it, and how much research they did, the food culture influences discussed are only from the Chinese side, although there are many other cultural influences in Indonesian food culture, at least from the Dutch and Arab influences. Sambal is also still paired with "chilli sauce", even though there are many different forms of sambal. Perhaps this is also because the book was published in 2013. By this time, the term "sambal" had already been included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Overall, this book is very interesting especially for foodies like me. Getting this book as a gift was very touching and I will cherish this book close to my heart.
Belasan negara Eropa mengawali buku ini, membahas berbagai daerah per negara beserta budaya, tradisi, dan etiket makan. Tentu juga buku ini membahas berbagai jenis makanan khas tiap negara. Selain itu, jenis toko yang menjual produk makanan dan minuman khas negara tersebut juga dijelaskan, berikut dengan teknik masak khas masing-masing negara.
Dari benua Eropa, pembaca dibawa bergeser ke Timur Tengah dan Afrika Utara, kemudian berlanjut ke Asia, Pasifik, dan memutar kembali ke wilayah Amerika, dan berakhir di benua Afrika.
Indonesia dibahas dari halaman 632 sampai halaman 655. Mengingat tim penyusun tidak berasal dari Indonesia, dan saya tidak tahu proses penyusunannya, dan sedalam apa riset yang mereka lakukan, pengaruh budaya makan yang dibahas hanya dari sisi Cina, walau sangat banyak pengaruh budaya lain di budaya makan Indonesia, setidaknya dari pengaruh Belanda dan Arab. Sambal juga masih dipadankan dengan "chilli sauce", walau bentuk sambal sangat beragam. Mungkin hal ini juga terjadi karena buku ini diterbitkan pada tahun 2013. Saat ini lema "sambal" sudah masuk di kamus Merriam-Webster.
Secara keseluruhan, buku ini sangat menarik terutama bagi pencinta kuliner seperti saya. Mendapatkan buku ini sebagai hadiah sangat menyentuh hati dan saya akan menyimpan buku ini dekat di hati saya.
This "Food Book", as the sub-title suggests, takes us on an extraordinary culinary journey to 47 countries around the world.
Some European countries begin the book, discussing each region along with its culture, traditions and dining etiquette. Of course, the book also discusses the different types of food that each country specializes in. In addition, the types of stores that sell the country's specialty food and beverage products are also described, along with each country's unique cooking techniques.
From the Europe continent, the reader is taken to the Middle East and North Africa, then on to Asia, the Pacific, and circling back to the America, and ending on the African continent.
Indonesia is covered from page 632 to page 655. Since the team of authors are not from Indonesia, and I don't know the process of compiling it, and how much research they did, the food culture influences discussed are only from the Chinese side, although there are many other cultural influences in Indonesian food culture, at least from the Dutch and Arab influences. Sambal is also still paired with "chilli sauce", even though there are many different forms of sambal. Perhaps this is also because the book was published in 2013. By this time, the term "sambal" had already been included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Overall, this book is very interesting especially for foodies like me. Getting this book as a gift was very touching and I will cherish this book close to my heart.
January 7, 2020
Could have had a few more countries, like South Korea, Kazakhstan, and Iraq.
April 12, 2014
The book is pretty big and bulky with the dimension of approx. 7 x 7 x 2 inches. It features most, but not all topics related to food like culture, regions, feasts, etiquette, the menu, daily meals, essential produce, shopping, preparation, defining dishes, and drinks as well as some of the recipes from 47 famous cuisines of the world. I like this book very much but i had a hard time read names of dishes, especially French ones. Recommended to those who love food and travel!
More detail review in my blog: http://korpannita.wordpress.com/2014/...
More detail review in my blog: http://korpannita.wordpress.com/2014/...
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October 9, 2017Not every country, not every dish...but an interesting world tour of food.A few stereotypes here and there, but lots of information. Not just food...etiquette, cooking tools, etc. GREAT PICTURES.
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