Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

Reviewed on , book by Rachel Laudan

This was way more academic than I anticipated, so I ended up mostly skimming before finally putting it down. What intrigued me to pick this up was this endlessly fascinating image mapping the Mongol expansion on the spread of the dumpling:

Book map showing stuffed dumpling names across Eurasia overlaid on the Mongol Empire and Silk Road trade routes.

Unfortunately, that’s a lonely peak in this book.

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