Spice Chronicles: Exotic Tales of a Hungry Traveler

by Harry Rolnick

An intriguing collection of stories and exotic recipes collected by the author during his travels in Asia, East Europe and Africa as food critic and travel writer. Transporting the readers to bizarre lands, dishes and customs, Spice Chronicles runs the gamut from cannibalism in Syria, insect curry in Thailand and drunken feast in Mongolia to Kurdish restaurant in the American Midwest.It includes odes, parodies and poems about food and drink written while waiting for one s meal. Both recipes and narratives circumnavigate the globe and excite the sense of fantasy and taste.

360 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2006