Round the World in 80 Dishes

by Lesley Blanch

Book Overview

This charming little book was first published in 1956 when people in England were still enduring post-war restrictions on both traveling and eating. As Lesley Blanch says in her introduction to a later edition 'benign fate whisked me elsewhere to follow less restricted ways, traveling widely and eating wildly.' She said: 'I don't belong in England, I don't belong anywhere, it is rather restful...I have met everybody and known nobody.' Seductive and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908117184
• ISBN13: 9781908117182
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Grub Street
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"