Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China - Couverture souple

Wong, Jan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0864929617 ISBN 13 : 9780864929617

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions, 2017

Synopsis

<p><b>Shortlisted, 2018 Taste Canada Awards and 2018 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction<br>Longlisted, 2018 RBC Taylor Prize</b></p><p>Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.</p><p>On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the villagers teach them without fuss or fanfare how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they home-cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who comprise one of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting &#8212; and occasionally clashing &#8212; over their mutual love of cooking.</p><p>A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, <i>Apron Strings</i> is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious.</p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jan Wong is the author of five non-fiction bestsellers, including Out of the Blue and Red China Blues, named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of 1996. (Twenty years later, the book is still in print.) She has won numerous journalism awards and is now a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian, Jan is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Goose Lane Editions
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0864929617
• ISBN 13: 9780864929617
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible