NATIONAL DISH: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home, by Anya von Bremzen We have a compulsion to tie food to place, Anya von Bremzen writes in her new book, but that compulsion, it turns out, has more to do with myth and marketing than with historical fact.National Dish is the story of her quest to understand why certain foods, like pizza, ramen and tapas, are adopted as symbols of their places of origin.
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