Mimi Sheraton

Introduction: The World on a Platter British and Irish: English, Welsh, Scottish French   Belgian and Dutch Italian Spanish and Portuguese German, Austrian, and Swiss Scandinavian: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Eastern European: Balkan, Bulgarian, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian Jewish Greek, Turkish, and Middle Eastern: Afghani, Armenian, Iranian, Israeli, Lebanese, Yemeni American and Canadian Mexican and Latin American: Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban, Peruvian Caribbean: Haitian, Jamaican African North African: Egyptian, Moroccan, Tunisian West African: Nigerian, Senegalese East and Southern African: Ethiopian, Kenyan, Mozambican, South African Chinese Japanese and Korean Thai and Southeast Asian: Indonesian, Malaysian, Singaporean, Vietnamese Indian Australian, New Zealand, Tahitian Indexes: 915 Recipes, Featured Restaurants, World-Class Markets, Holiday Foods, Cultural Feasts, Foods of the World, General Index

Drawn from cuisines around the globe—French, Italian, Chinese, and Indian, but also Senegalese, Lebanese, Thai, and good old-fashioned American—here are the tastes, ingredients, restaurants, dishes, and recipes (more than 70) that every food lover should experience or dream about, whether it’s dinner at Chicago’s Alinea, the perfect empanada, or a stroll in the markets of Palermo. Joyous, surprising, informative, and described in mouthwatering detail, each entry shines with the passion of one of the world’s most celebrated food writers saying: You must try this. Nuts-and-bolts information at the end of each entry tells you where to taste the dish or find the ingredients, and where to go for the best recipes or find further information.