Richard Sterling Livres

Lush photography and tantalizing descriptions of local cuisine set these beautiful pocket guides apart from all of the other guides that juxtapose food and travel. Each guide traces the unique cultural influences that helped shape the culinary traditions of the featured country, with fascinating sidebars on special ingredients and preparation techniques. The best feature of the World Food Guides is the fact that recipes are included, so you can try your hand at making Spanish romesco sauce, Moroccan bastila, or Vietnamese bahn xeo. You'll also find a food glossary, vivid photographs of ingredients and markets, tips and techniques, and much more.

Travel through the hidden pockets and idiosyncratic history of San Francisco with this guide, written with an affection for the city that enlivens every page. San Francisco's restaurants, shops and cutlural offerings enjoy detailed coverage, as do tempting destinations outside the city. Laced with anecdotes of hippies and shanghaiers, Beats and immigrants, this guidebook embraces every element of the crazy quilt that is San Francisco and lays them all at the visitor's feet. Dizzying cable-car drops...sumptuous California cuisine...vibrant street scenes...pulsating nightlife...the City by the Bay combines attitude and charm like no other place on earth. Whether you're feelin' the love in the Haight or slicing through the fog of the Golden Gate, this streetwise and stylish guide will show you why it's so easy to leave your heart in San Francisco. • TAP IN to the urban pulse, with inspiring City Life coverage and in-depth restaurant, cafe, club and shop reviews • TEAR AROUND TOWN with the world's best guidebook maps and detailed walking tours • LET LOOSE with insider tips from local authors, from cruising the Castro to sitting pretty in North Beach • ESCAPE THE CROWDS with the best guide to hidden gems and daytrips to the East Bay, Wine Country and beyond • SLEEP IN STYLE with the widest choice of accommodation options to suit your pocket

Many people admit that they travel, in large part, to eat, to break bread with strangers and leave the table with friends, to discover the world through the medium of cuisine. Here is a collection of stories which further the proposition that humanity is revealed through cuisine is just as surely as it is through any other art or social activity. Notable authors found in the book include P.J. O'Rourke, M.F.K. Fisher, Peter Mayle, Colin Thubron, and Rory Nugent.

Food — its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals — is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with how food nourishes and sustains us, teaches us about other cultures, and creates community and connection with others. From the award-winning editor of Travelers’ Tales Food, here is another collection of funny and sometimes frightening true stories of eating that will make your mouth water while helping you better understand other cultures. Notable authors include Jeffrey Steingarten, Frances Mayes, Jonathan Raban, John Krich, and Maxine Kumin.