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Lädt ... On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta (2013. Auflage)von Jen Lin-Liu
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An amazing book about an amazing journey. From China all along the Silk Road to Italy. It has everything I expected. Food of course, food and did I mention food? Wonderful writing. You meet an amazing range of different people along the trip. The people are as different as the food and the countries and cultures. This book made me hungry for more. And it even has the recipes for most dishes. I'll definitely try some. The authors Silk Road journey to discover the origin of the noodle...where very little about noodles is actually discovered but so very much more is. This was fascinating and so educational, I learned so much about the different cultures in that area, some cultures I hardly knew existed except maybe in passing in a news story and then usually in a political way not a cultural way. The book is well written, engaging and informative without being overly preachy though I did find it a bit hard to believe the author was as naive as she came across about the way women are treated in that part of the world. The overall balance in the book between the cultures, their history and her personal experience was handled quite well and she never spent to much time on one or the other that I lost interest. I really enjoyed this and I am definitely going to be checking out her other book. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Okay, so memoirs are by nature somewhat self-indulgent. But--as I've pointed out in reviews of other books, such as Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan's A Tiger in the Kitchen--effective memoirs are written at a distance: with reflection; with a veil or patina of wisdom that imparts a deeper meaning on one's erstwhile actions and thoughts. When one is too close to those actions and thoughts, superficiality, naïveté, and self-centeredness rear their ugly heads. For me, then, Jen Lin-Liu's On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta read decidedly as so-called chick lit. The premise sounded fascinating, but the delivery was too unfocused, too rambling, too diary-like; and the reader leaves the journey ultimately unsatisfied, since the author's intended goals seem unmet at the end. When I teach writing, in fact, I find that students often have a very difficult time understanding what level of detail is appropriate for their tasks at hand. The most important matter is to keep the narrative moving forward. So the writer must know the goal; and the writer must be able to imagine how his or her readers will respond to the text. When that sense of connecting with the reader is lost, the story, the thread, the argument, the whatever becomes something only the author cares about--and the reader just wants to be finished.In short, then, the bifurcated storylines (that of the ostensible premise of the book--traveling the Silk Road in study of noodles and noodle dishes--and of the author's relationship with her husband [about which I was completely uninterested]) fail to speak to one another; they're a marriage of convenience for the purpose of packaging a book that I suppose might appeal to readers who enjoy books in the Eat, Pray, Love genre. I prefer food-related books where I learn something transformative and meaningful about food and culture--or where the author has a gifted ability to write about food in a way that does not sound merely like litanies of ingredients or dishes followed by too-brief (or absent) analyses of the results. The baggage and trappings of the authors are difficult for me to warm up to, particularly with contemporary authors (and almost always the case with authors who are younger than I am). When I finish these sorts of books--and I do so only because I commit myself to finishing what I begin--I always tell myself, "Never again!" But I'd read this author's first offering, Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey through China, of which the first part of On the Noodle Road resurrects (and thus feels repetitive), so I am the one to blame here for giving the author another chance. Alas. (And I must clarify that these views are my impressions of the book qua effective story, not of the author qua person.) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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