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

3.0

I'm still really trying to decide what I thought about this book. It wasn't bad, but I didn't love it. I think my main problem is I opened it up thinking I was getting a combination of travelogue and food writing about trying to find the origins of pasta and noodles, and it ended up being more about a woman trying to assert her independence and decide what it meant for her to be a wife. It's not that this is a bad topic to explore, just not what I thought I was getting. I wanted history and food, not meditations of what it means to be a wife and how to balance career and family.