Eat This Book [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION » PICTURE THIS I'm in a car on the way to a shoot for my Food Network show, Food 911, with David, one of my producers. I told him I was having a hard time coming up with a title for my new book. The deadline was looming and all I had were uninspired working titles. He asked me what the cookbook was really about and I said very definitively (but not really with confidence), "It's about global fresh flavors. It's about INCREDIBLY DOABLE RECIPES that you can make at home, but it's also about global understanding through food, it's about THE FLAVORS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES. It's Tuscan farmhouse food, dishes from Chinatown, Indian curries, flavors from the Mediterranean, that you can make right here." That same day there had been a story on the front page of the New York Times how the EU (European Union) was putting an import ban on American GM (genetically modified) foods like corn and wheat. Right next to that there was a story about the war in Iraq. Staring out the window, I felt that in the big picture a new cookbook was not the most important thing in the world. Yet food does transcend geographical and ideological boundaries in a way few things can. What can I say, I'm just a chef, or maybe a fmstrated politician, but I know one thing for sure: I love this