Product Description: Food — its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals — is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with how food nourishes and sustains us, teaches us about other cultures, and creates community and connection with others...read more

Enhanced by detailed full-color maps, a new series of travel guides focusing on the world's great cities provides detailed overviews of the finest museum and gallery districts within each urban center, along with tips on the best dining, fabulous places to stay, outstanding entertainment and nightlife options, and fashionable shopping areas for the discerning traveler.

Product Description: Descriptions of 20 feasts with more than 100 recipes collected from Sterling's travels in Southeast Asia

Product Description: The creators of the popular, no-holds-barred Unofficial Guides now take locals and travelers out on the town with The Eclectic Gourmet, their new dining-guide series. The Eclectic Gourmet Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area helps you avoid dining disappointments and overpriced restaurants and points you directly to the best-quality dining for the price...read more

Product Description: Travelers' Tales: Love & Romance will be released in January 1998 -- just in time for setting up displays for Valentine's Day in February. To help promote this title, along with the rest of our Travelers' Tales titles, we've put together a special program to help drive customers to your stores...read more

Product Description: In these wide-ranging tales from a life on the road, Vietnam vet and “adventure eater” Richard Sterling takes the reader deep into the heart of cultures, from Asia to Africa to North America. Whether breaking bread with a murderer in the Baja desert or enjoying a shipboard dalliance with a mysterious new acquaintance on the South China Sea, Sterling’s faith in humanity is continually renewed through the sharing of food, drink, and passion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Contributors including M. F. K. Fisher, P. J. O'Rourke, and Colin Thubron recount culinary journeys that follow a pilgrimage in Casablanca for an authentic meal, a mysterious prankster in a southern France garden, and a crabbing expedition beneath a Caribbean sky. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Provides information on hotels, attractions, nightlife, shopping, outdoor recreation, and tours, and offers advice on getting orientated with the city. (view table of contents)

The author offers a culinary tour of the world's most exotic foods, taking readers on a journey that will cover the wide territory stretching between the most expensive restaurants in Europe to villages in the Phillipines where poeple eat congealed blood from wooden bowls. Original.

Product Description: This guide offers California's culinary culture on a plate. It is illustrated and includes a special Wine Country section on Napa Valley, together with various local recipes.

Product Description: Marching straight past the tourist restaurants and into the kitchens of modern Greece, this guide explores culinary Greece from the Semeli winery near the plain of Marathon to the grand Thessaloniki market. It covers feasting, fasting and the four seasons - from summer selections to funereal feasts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A pocket-sized guide to the culture of eating and drinking in Hong Kong. It includes a chef's culinary dictionary and insider's guides to eateries, markets and home cooking in this vibrant destination.

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Collects stories about dining experiences in various countries of the world

Product Description: This title features essays and travel stories from one of the world's most popular back-packer destinations. "Travelers' Tales Vietnam, Including Laos and Cambodia" features essays and travel stories about a land that has transformed from war, devastation and cultural conflict to a popular and welcoming destination for travellers of all nationalities...read more

Product Description: Travel can take many forms with a vast array of destinations, but there's one trip everyone will eventually take. The Ultimate Journey offers a choice selection of true stories from major writers about the final adventure. Crossing all geographical and spiritual boundaries, these writers in the fields of travel and spirituality tell touching, and often surprising, stories of their brushes with death...read more

Providing a sensible, objective, consumer's guide to travel, these easy-to-use travel handbooks provide useful evaluations of local hotels, attractions, and restaurants in all price ranges, honest advice on local attractions that are worth the time and money, detailed maps, tips on special events and festivals, and extensive information on local shopping, sports, nightlife, and other activities.

Product Description: Middle and high school writing is not pointless! From one of the most respected writing professors in America, this book combines the insight — affective-- for writing with writing as a learning tool in all content areas.   Prompted by the “near-total neglect of writing” in content areas outside English, Bill Strong explores and answers the question ‘why writing matters...read more