International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes* - Tapa dura

Imagine a cookbook that is both a global anthropology adventure and cooking lesson all at once. International Night stimulates a sense of culinary wanderlust--with a playful, refreshing, and authoritative point of view, all of which makes you want to get in the kitchen and cook!

(Danny Meyer, restaurateur, and author, Setting the Table)

Mark Kurlansky, double your daughter's allowance. Talia has concocted a far-reaching, mouth-watering global culinary trip, and graciously allowed you to share billing and lick the spoons. (Lemony Snicket)

Both teens and adults will find the brief country profiles enlightening, and a bibliography of international cookbooks provides fine fodder for a family library. (Publishers Weekly)

A fun idea, an exciting read, and a lot of recipes you'd probably not try otherwise--what's not to like? (Library Journal)

This is an early favorite . . . because of its rating system for difficulty, its range and the way in which Talia's notes are spot-on. Everybody can learn, and everybody will eat. (Washington Post)

Packed with fascinating tidbits and mouthwatering recipes, International Night is a hands-on culinary treat for the whole family. (Shelf Awareness)

The Kurlanskys' cookbook engages the entire family in the kitchen . . . Everyone can actually win at dinnertime if given some power over what's on the table. (Edible Manhattan)

A lively guide to enjoying global cuisine at home. (Wall Street Journal)

The Kurlanskys' recipes vary in difficulty, and every night is accompanied by a Kurlanskyopedia entry, if you will, about the place. I don't think I'll ever make the soup called oyster zousui, but I liked reading about the Japanese distrust of that raw mollusk, and it was nice to find, between the same covers, good recipes for Afghan chickpea meatballs, sauerbraten and Mongolian hot pot. (The New York Times Book Review)

A father and daughter cook their way around the world including more than 250 recipes.