Diana Henry´s Simple was one of the few books that completely reassessed my relationship with food, helping me to understand both its nourishing and social significance. Her newest book, Around the Table, has less to do with recipes, but a lot with the significance and meaning of food.
The book is a collection of 52 essays, emphasizing her 2-decade long of direct experience with food, gathered while preparing her cookbooks or food articles. Fascinated about ´how and what we eat´ she is tracing down food traditions, ingredients and ways to connect across the world. Like in Simple and other books she authored, one can feel the quest for authenticity through original yet genuine food stories and ingredients.
Food is a gateway to other worlds, and mindsets. One of my sweetest memories about food are connected to the places I´ve discovered and the people I´ve met around the table. Hence, my absolute pleasure reading Henry´s essays which are evocative, inquisitive and well informed.
A recommended book to any lover of good writing about food while trying to better understand food´s impact in our daily lives. It may make you hungry for knowledge, and this is a special need we, readers among us, may be very much familiar with.
Rating: 5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opnions are, as usual, my own
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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