'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Having been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, Michael Booth discovered one of the great secrets of travel literature - Andersen's A Poet's Bazaar - a fascinating travelogue through a Europe on the cusp of revolution, by an author who invented children's literature. He discovered, too, his chance to escape Denmark. In 1840 Andersen was also desperate to flee, writing as he sailed: 'It is just as well I am leaving, my soul is unwell!' In Germany he was enraptured both by steam travel and the fiery Franz Liszt. In sultry Naples this latent bisexual wrestled with his erotic demons before travelling to Athens (little more than a village), seeing the dervishes dance in Istanbul, and sailing home up the Danube. Booth follows him every step of the way, reflecting on Andersen's life, work and pathological self-obsession, encountering his own cast of characters, from an accommodating Hamburg prostitute to a bemused Danish Ambassador to the first ever female dervish, who whisks him off to meet her guru.

Just as Well I'm Leaving: To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen

Travel

Michael Booth

Travel Writing

Vintage Books

Doing Without Delia: Tales of Triumph and Disaster in a French Kitchen

Business & Money

Industries

Vintage Books USA

A funny, moving travelogue following in the footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen. Without Hans Christian Andersen there would be no Alice in Wonderland, no Roald Dahl and maybe even no Harry Potter (and he has outsold them all), but few realise that the man who invented children's literature was also a pioneering travel writer. Having been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, Michael Booth discovered one of the great secrets of travel literature - Andersen's A Poet's Bazaar - a fascinating travelogue through a Europe on the cusp of revolution, by an author who, though a genius, was clearly a towering neurotic and proto-drama queen. He discovered, too, his chance to escape Denmark. In 1840 Andersen was also desperate to flee, writing as he sailed: 'It is just as well I am leaving, my soul is unwell!' In Germany he was enraptured both by steam travel and the fiery Franz Liszt. In sultry Naples this latent bisexual wrestled with his erotic demons before travelling to Athens (little more than a village), seeing the dervishes dance in Istanbul, and sailing home up the Danube, a journey fraught with danger, not least due to some inattentive leech salesmen. Booth follows him every step of the way, reflecting on Andersen's life, work and pathological self-obsession, encountering his own cast of characters, from an accommodating Hamburg prostitute to a bemused Danish Ambassador to the first ever female dervish, who whisks him off to meet her guru. In 2005 literature fans around the world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth, making this funny, and occasionally moving, but mostly funny, book even more timely.

Just As Well I'm Leaving : Around Europe With Hans Christian Andersen

JONATHAN CAPE.

Michael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs and their recipes. He wants to know how to cook, not just to follow recipes. So, he burns his cookery books and, together with his young family, heads for a new life in Paris - reasoning that, if anyone can be trusted to make food complicated, it's the French. He embarks on the ultimate foodie fantasy, enrolling at the world's most famous cooking school, Le Cordon Bleu, whose wise and cranky French chefs begin to transform him into a professional, tutoring him in the fascinating, bizarre and occasionally arcane ways of classical French cooking. Meanwhile, he and his family try to adjust to the challenges of life in Paris: dealing with the park Nazis, sweet-talking the Metro police and trying not to look when the neighbours start having sex out of their window.In this riveting and hilarious book Booth introduces us to his fellow food-obsessed students from around the world; meets Gerard Depardieu (who reveals why you should never eat vegetables from his grandmother's garden); and hears the extraordinary predictions of the future of food from "Herve This", the founding father of molecular gastronomy. Booth shares with us the secrets of his training at Le Cordon Bleu and of French cooking itself, explaining how to make the perfect sauce; the secret of great stocks; how to win a fight with a lobster; and how to avoid maiming yourself while cleaning your knives. He explores how France rose to culinary pre-eminence and asks if Paris still deserves its reputation as the culinary capital of the world. Following both traumas and unexpected triumphs at school, Booth embarks on the ultimate chef's challenge, he goes to work at the Michelin-starred Paris restaurant of the most famous chef in France, Joel Robuchon.

Sacre Cordon Bleu: What the French Know about Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Almost Nearly Perfect People The Truth about the Nordic Miracle [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2014] Michael Booth ... 0224089625

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Eat Pray Eat

Penguin/Random House

Discover Denmark Bag yourself a unique accessory from a super-cool boutique on Copenhagen's Nansensgade Steer your own course from city to coast via hundreds of criss-crossing cycleways Tuck into a traditional rye smorrebrod and see the humble sandwich in a new light Get three sheets to the wind on a champagne sunset cruise around fabulous Funen In This Guide: Full-color chapter on Denmark's hot design scene New festivals and events calendar shows you what's happening when and where See what travelers are saying at lonelyplanet.com

Lonely Planet Denmark

Fran Parnell

Carolyn Bain

Andrew Stone

Europe

GeoPlaneta

Meaning Of Rice

Vintage

Japanese edition of Sushi and beyond: one family's remarkable journey through the greatest food nation on earth. World traveling cook and author Michael Booth gets a behind the kitchen experience in some of Japan's finest restaurants and reveals why Japanese cooking is in a league of its own. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Sushi and Beyond: One Family's Remarkable Journey Through the Greatest Food Nation on Earth (English and Japanese Edition)

Cooking Education & Reference

Akishobo Inc.

The Almost Nearly Perfect People (Chinese Edition) 下一個全球超級典範─北歐：經濟富足，人民幸福，全球跟著北歐學

Asia

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