Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat EverythingInternationally popular food savant and blogger Simon Majumdar has an “irrepressible humor [that] sparkles through every bite” (Booklist) of this “ballsy, often hilarious foodie travelogue” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that chronicles a yearlong journey around the world in search of everything delicious, odd, and oddly delicious. When Simon Majumdar hit forty, he realized there had to be more to life than his stable but uninspiring desk job. As he wondered how to escape his career, he rediscovered a list of goals he had scrawled out years before, the last of which said: Go everywhere, eat everything. With that, he had found his mission—a yearlong search for the delicious, and curious, and the curiously delicious, which he names Eat My Globe and memorably chronicles in these pages. In Majumdar's world, food is everything. Like every member of his family, he has a savant's memory for meals, with instant recall of dishes eaten decades before. Simon's unstoppable wit and passion for all things edible (especially those things that once had eyes, and a face, and a mom and a pop) makes this an armchair traveler's and foodie's delight—Majumdar does all the heavy lifting, eats the heavy foods (and suffers the weighty consequences), so you don't have to. He jets to thirty countries in just over twelve months, diving mouth-first into local cuisines and cultures as different as those of Japan and Iceland. His journey takes him from China, where he consumes one of his "Top Ten Worst Eats," stir-fried rat, to the United States, where he glories in our greatest sandwiches: the delectable treasures of Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan, BBQ in Kansas and Texas, the still-rich po' boys of post-Katrina New Orleans. The meat of the story—besides the peerless ham in Spain, the celebrated steaks of Argentina, the best of Münich's wursts as well as their descendants, the famous hot dogs of Chicago—is the friends that Simon makes as he eats. They are as passionate about food as he is and are eager to welcome him to their homes and tables, share their choicest meals, and reveal their local secrets. Also a poignant memoir, Eat My Globe is a life told through food and spiced with Majumdar's remembrances of foods past, including those from his colorful childhood. A captivating look at one man's passion for food, family, and unique life experiences, Eat My Globe will make you laugh while it makes you hungry. It is sure to satiate any gastronome obsessed with globetrotting—for now. |
Contents
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JAPAN HONG KONG CHINA MONGOLIA RUSSIA | 43 |
THE TRANSSIBERIAN RAILWAY RIDING THE RAILS FROM ULAN BATOR | 84 |
FINLAND PERTTI AND THE PRINSESSA | 92 |
UNITED STATES MEXICO ARGENTINA BRAZIL U S WEST COAST SCOTLAND MUNICH AND ICELAND | 99 |
AMERICA FED WHITE AND BLUE | 101 |
CHICAGO DOG EAT DOG | 108 |
ANN ARBOR THE CULT OF ZINGERMANS | 112 |
THAILAND MALAYSIA VIETNAM PHILIPPINES AND INDIA | 177 |
THAILAND SAWADEE | 179 |
CALL ME ISHMAEL | 184 |
HANOI CROUCHING DOWN FOR PHO WITH UNCLE HO | 188 |
A FILLER IN MANILA | 192 |
INDIA CRAZY BEAUTIFUL | 197 |
MUMBAI THE UNSTOPPABLE | 203 |
KOLKATA LAND OF MY FATHERS | 212 |
AUSTIN DONT MESS WITH TEXAS | 116 |
NEW ORLEANS SIMON IS BIG AND SIMON IS EASY | 121 |
PHILADELPHIA STAN AND LISA PAT AND GENO | 126 |
THATS SO NEW YORK | 129 |
MEXICO MI CORAZÓN 129 | 135 |
BUENOS AIRES LOVE ME TENDER | 144 |
BRAZIL THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF WAY OUT OF HERE | 148 |
SAN FRANCISCO AN APOLOGY | 153 |
GIVING THANKS IN SANTA CRUZ | 155 |
THREE MEN AND A STILL | 162 |
IMMER ESSEN IN MÜNCHEN | 168 |
ICELAND ROTTEN SHARK ROTTEN WEATHER | 172 |
THE DARJEELING EXPRESS | 218 |
SOUTH AFRICA MOZAMBIQUE SENEGAL MOROCCO SPAIN TURKEY AND ITALY | 225 |
SOUTH AFRICA ITS MY PARTY AND ILL BRAAI IF I WANT TO | 227 |
SENEGAL TERANGA | 233 |
OFF ON THE ROAD TO MOROCCO | 240 |
SPAIN A HORSEMAN RIDING BY | 244 |
ISTANBUL EATING EYTANS WAY | 249 |
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME | 259 |
APPENDICES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 279 |
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