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1 online resource (1 audio file (54hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Anne Glatt. |
| Summary |
Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants and learn classic French fare. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the villagers teach them without fuss or fanfare how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they home-cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting - and occasionally clashing - over their mutual love of cooking. A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Wong, Jan -- Travel.
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Food -- Social aspects.
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International cooking.
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Globalization.
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Families.
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| Added Author |
Glatt, Anne.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781773102092 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1773102095 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14575197 |
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