Eat on the street
ENI love this book! It is a world tour of street food. It titillates the taste buds and makes you travel. Its title: Take away (To go). Ten years of travel, 500 photos and 120 recipes: a book to devour with your eyes, concocted by a photographer, Jean-François Mallet, who was also a chef ...
Take away
Jean-François Mallet
Aubanel editions
384 pages, 35 €
Another book discovered while passing in front of the window of my favorite bookshop (Arianein Rennes). I just had to see the cover to fall in love.
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Eating in the street... One of my great pleasures in Asia, especially in Thailand. You can find everywhere, at any time, street vendors, small open-air restaurants with their tiny plastic chairs, fruit, doughnut and soup vendors with tempting stalls. The street food is a way of life there. It's often delicious and not expensive at all!
This is not the first time I have talked about these Food-markets and Food-stalls so typical of Southeast Asia, in this blog. Some articles to revisit here:
→ Noodle soup at the Chumphon market
→ Last day in Perhentian Kecil
→ On the way to Semporna
→ In need of pad-thai?
→ In the frenzy of Bangkok
And a few photos I fished out of the bottom of my hard drive:
My intuition was right. The cover photo of Take away was taken in Thailand, in Bangkok. Asia is very present in the book, of course. But there is also room for many other small dishes to take away, or to nibble on the corner of the street: Spanish tapas, London fish and chips, Moroccan lamb brochettes, Argentine empanadas, Malian banana fritters... Yum!
Small excerpt from the back cover:
Street food is a way of life that is widespread throughout the world. Far from fast food with a uniform taste, street food is on the contrary the affirmation of a strong cultural identity. Eating in small popular canteens or directly in the street is the best way to discover a country from the inside.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Finally, to finish this appetizing tour of the world of street food, I invite you to visit the link below, spotted by one of the subscribers to my Facebook page. Dozens of videos to learn the recipes of the street food Thai:
Yummy again!
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Yummy! Makes you hungry. I too love sampling things on the street when I'm traveling. Wherever it is, I buy from street vendors. In China, I've eaten things I don't even know what they are! And contrary to what some people fear, I've never been sick. If it looks appetizing, it's good! If it looks fishy, don't touch it. That's my motto, and it's always worked for me!
Enjoy your meal.
@RolK: Yes, people I meet on my travels often don't understand why I “dare” to eat in the local boui-bouis... Too bad for them, they don't know what they're missing. Occasionally, some of them decide to accompany me and “dare” in turn. And in the end, they're delighted! In general, you just have to look at the local crowd to be sure that the canteen is good. For precautions, your common-sense motto is enough!!! 😉
The only time I've ever been sick from food while traveling was after eating pizza... in Vietnam!!!! 😆 In a tourist “restaurant”.
Now, I'll have to go home, to test some of the tempting recipes in the book.
Just 2 words: MIAM MIAM !!! Come on, one more: MIAM !!!!
In a district of the capital of my native country (mada), we say “on va aller faire un jeudi magnifique”, translation: go eat in the street on Thursdays! it's picturesque! 8)
I bought this book for myself and I'm so glad I did! I couldn't agree more with the comments: visiting a country is all about the culinary discoveries you make, especially in the local canteens. And if there's one thing I always bring back in my luggage, it's local foodstuffs, so that I can continue the journey at home ^_^.
@ Helen: You'd like this book... yum!!! 😉
@Iptdbth: I love it!!! 🙂
@Caroline: I do the same: I don't bring back many souvenirs anymore, but more easily tea, coffee and spices... 🙄
Indeed, the cover photo of the book is very attractive!
Uh ..., yum!
Ah yes, the concept of a series has a nice ring to it. I'll have to take a quick look at that book. Thanks for the info 🙂
@david and @David: Very well damn this book, really. Good concept, beautiful pictures, recipes that make you want. Inspiring, indeed ...
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