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A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she'd lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europe—and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husband's blessing, she set out to discover the connections, both historical and personal, eating a path through western China and on into Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and across the Mediterranean.The journey takes Lin-Liu into the private kitchens where the headscarves come off and women not only knead and simmer but also confess and confide. The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkey—their tiny size the measure of a bride's worth—and end as tortellini in Italy. And as she stirs and samples, listening to the women talk about their lives and

Who reads On the Noodle Road : From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta?

Author

Jen Lin-Liu

Publisher

Riverhead Hardcover; Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101616192

Category

reference

Subjects

Travel, History, Cooking

Rating

3.29 / 5 (879 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14