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Lonely Planet Food Trails 1
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
For everyone who loves travel and trying the local delicacies, this beautifully illustrated hardback is the must-have handbook to a year's worth of perfect weekends around the world for food lovers. Featured trails include the an homage to Buenos Aires steak, cozy wintertime French Canadian cuisine, Puglia's distinctive dishes, and Parisian patisserie. Each trail is an itinerary, detailing when and where to indulge in the local specialties. There are 52 trails, each with gorgeous photography, a bespoke map, expert writing and practical details of how to get there and where to stay. This is the second in Lonely Planet's Perfect Weekends series, following the critically acclaimed Wine Trails.
The 52 itineraries cover the whole globe. In the Americas we try seafood chowder in Maine; creole and cajun food in the Deep South; barbecue in Texas; and Hawaii's island food among other taste sensations. In Europe we discover the mouthwatering cuisines of Crete, Italy, Denmark, England, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Ireland and other countries. Prepare for spice in Asia as we go to India, Vietnam and Malaysia for street food; Japan for sushi and South Korea for barbecue. In Australia and New Zealand, experiences include the farm-to-table scene in Tasmania, Melbourne's melting pot of cuisines and seafood in Auckland. Wherever you are in the world, there will be trip
Each itinerary features about a dozen stops, including food markets, must-visit restaurants and shops or opportunities to meet food makers or providers. Each is reviewed by Lonely Planet's authors who have visited the place. Practical details are provided so readers can make bookings and tailor their own trips. A section at the end of each itinerary suggests places to stay and lists events that take place during the year. Great photography adds visual appeal to every itinerary, each of which has an illustrated map, showing the route hungry travellers should take.
For foodies looking for inspiration for their next weekend away, and ideas for new cuisines to taste and share, Food Trails will be the source of many happy faces and full stomachs!
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, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, 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 they find themselves in.
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 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)
For everyone who loves travel and trying the local delicacies, this beautifully illustrated hardback is the must-have handbook to a year's worth of perfect weekends around the world for food lovers. Featured trails include the an homage to Buenos Aires steak, cozy wintertime French Canadian cuisine, Puglia's distinctive dishes, and Parisian patisserie. Each trail is an itinerary, detailing when and where to indulge in the local specialties. There are 52 trails, each with gorgeous photography, a bespoke map, expert writing and practical details of how to get there and where to stay. This is the second in Lonely Planet's Perfect Weekends series, following the critically acclaimed Wine Trails.
The 52 itineraries cover the whole globe. In the Americas we try seafood chowder in Maine; creole and cajun food in the Deep South; barbecue in Texas; and Hawaii's island food among other taste sensations. In Europe we discover the mouthwatering cuisines of Crete, Italy, Denmark, England, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Ireland and other countries. Prepare for spice in Asia as we go to India, Vietnam and Malaysia for street food; Japan for sushi and South Korea for barbecue. In Australia and New Zealand, experiences include the farm-to-table scene in Tasmania, Melbourne's melting pot of cuisines and seafood in Auckland. Wherever you are in the world, there will be trip
Each itinerary features about a dozen stops, including food markets, must-visit restaurants and shops or opportunities to meet food makers or providers. Each is reviewed by Lonely Planet's authors who have visited the place. Practical details are provided so readers can make bookings and tailor their own trips. A section at the end of each itinerary suggests places to stay and lists events that take place during the year. Great photography adds visual appeal to every itinerary, each of which has an illustrated map, showing the route hungry travellers should take.
For foodies looking for inspiration for their next weekend away, and ideas for new cuisines to taste and share, Food Trails will be the source of many happy faces and full stomachs!
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, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, 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 they find themselves in.
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 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)
320 pages, Hardcover
First published October 18, 2016
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April 9, 2017
Loved the concept - food tourism. Although I'm not the target audience (I would never travel somewhere just to eat the food there - I'm an "eat to live" and not "live to eat" kind of person), this book was interesting to me because I wanted to know what kinds of food certain places were famed for, what locals there normally ate, what foods were available there, and so on.
Along the above lines, the book did deliver. For instance, I found out that they have blueberry eclairs in France (and by gosh, was the picture of it mouthwatering indeed!), meat feasts in certain parts of the US, etc.
The main gist of the book was mainly disappointing though. It read more like a giant advert for restaurants the world over (think Michelin-star restaurant guide kind of thing, but with much better pictures and a more touristy stance), since in every chapter, specific restaurants were named and showcased. The cuisine also boiled down to mostly the same - fusion.
Along the above lines, the book did deliver. For instance, I found out that they have blueberry eclairs in France (and by gosh, was the picture of it mouthwatering indeed!), meat feasts in certain parts of the US, etc.
The main gist of the book was mainly disappointing though. It read more like a giant advert for restaurants the world over (think Michelin-star restaurant guide kind of thing, but with much better pictures and a more touristy stance), since in every chapter, specific restaurants were named and showcased. The cuisine also boiled down to mostly the same - fusion.
May 21, 2021
This is a beautiful book for someone who has traveled a lot and/or for anyone interested in food and travel. It's a good way to gather ideas for places to go, especially for extending a trip to a place you're already planning to visit. It tends to highlight places off the usual tourist track within famous cities as well as road trips further afield. I'm going to photocopy the pages for Beijing which give me ideas of good "foodie" places to try.
Beautiful pictures, engaging write-ups of restaurants, markets, and local style of the types of food. It includes other ideas for things to do and places to stay, but it wouldn't be good as the only guidebook for trip-planning.
The only thing I don't understand is the order of the chapters - they don't seem to hang together by continent or theme.
Travel brag: cities/regions I've been to from this book:
Black Forest, Paris, London, Chennai, Amman, Venice, Piedmont/Tuscany, Lima, Bratislava, Chiang Mai, Istanbul, NYC, Maine. Number of Restaurants mentioned that I've actually been to - TWO (Too bad I didn't have this book before!)
Beautiful pictures, engaging write-ups of restaurants, markets, and local style of the types of food. It includes other ideas for things to do and places to stay, but it wouldn't be good as the only guidebook for trip-planning.
The only thing I don't understand is the order of the chapters - they don't seem to hang together by continent or theme.
Travel brag: cities/regions I've been to from this book:
Black Forest, Paris, London, Chennai, Amman, Venice, Piedmont/Tuscany, Lima, Bratislava, Chiang Mai, Istanbul, NYC, Maine. Number of Restaurants mentioned that I've actually been to - TWO (Too bad I didn't have this book before!)
December 14, 2017
Really liked this concept. Mouth watering tours around all sorts of foodie destinations with lots of practical information thrown in and some lovely photographs. Would certainly refer to this book should I be visiting any of the highlighted cities or regions. Though perhaps a whole two to three day tour might be pushing it a bit- every stop on the Texas chapter seemed to involve a barbecue.
June 22, 2022
Good overview of areas and places to eat.
May 26, 2025
Interesting book, armchair travel. Very good!
November 21, 2019
This book does not translate
Well to an dreaded. Very difficult to read. Would not recommend
Well to an dreaded. Very difficult to read. Would not recommend
June 1, 2022
It's a pretty decent look at what to eat in each place listed but it's not the definitive list for things to eat
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