A review by ehawk
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta by Jen Lin-Liu

3.0

I love reading about food, though like many others I felt rather eyeroll-prone with Lin-Liu's descriptions of marital questions. Were this a film, that'd be where I'd fast forward. I listened to the audiobook for this, and I'm guessing that the publisher went with someone fairly comfortable with Italian pronunciation, because the Chinese pronunciation for various dishes was so butchered that it took me out of the book. It made me suspect of other dish names mentioned all along the silk road. My own interest and study of Chinese and Chinese food made this book a real treat, trying to tie links along the silk road, and the relationships with other cooks across various countries still made this a good read for me, despite occasional cringes at priveledge, and cross cultural assumptions.