Anya von Bremzen

Travelling from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul, she investigates the rapid decline of France's pot-au-feu, the misconstrued beginnings of pizza, the meeting of indigenous and European lineages in mole, and the complex legacy of multi-culturalism in a meze potluck. “Never have we been more cosmopolitan about what we eat - and yet more essentialist, locavore,...

"This voyage into culinary myth-making is essential reading... I couldn't love it more!" - Nigella Lawson "Enchanting, fascinating and humorous" - Claudia Roden "Reads like an engrossing unputdownable novel about the perpetual soup of humanity. And it made me think so much!" - Olia Hercules In National Dish, award-winning food writer Anya von Bremzen sets out to investigate the eternal...

In National Dish, award-winning food writer Anya von Bremzen sets out to investigate the eternal cliché that 'we are what we eat'. Her journey takes her from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul. She probes the decline of France's pot-au-feu in the age of globalisation, the stratospheric rise of ramen, the legend of pizza, the postcolonial...