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Grand Dishes: Recipes and Stories from Grandmothers of the World

Iska Lupton

This is not a book about what it's like to be old. It's about what it's like to have lived.

There is no food quite like a grandmother's time-perfected dish. Inspired by their own grandmothers - and the love they shared through the food they served - Anastasia Miari and Iska Lupton embarked on a mission: from Corfu to Cuba, Moscow to New Orleans, and many more in between, they set out to capture cooking methods, regional recipes and timeless wisdom from grandmothers around the world.

The result is Grand Dishes, a journey across four years of cooking with the world's grandmothers, a preservation not just of recipes but of the stories - told through the dishes - that have seasoned these grandmothers' lives. Featured alongside are contributions from celebrated chefs and food writers, each with their own grandmother's recipe to share.

Rich with the insight that age brings, elegant portraits, diverse recipes, and techniques unique to a region, a grandmother and her family, this is a book to pass down through generations.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Unbound
  • Publish Date: Jul 13rd, 2021
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.50in - 7.60in - 1.30in - 2.60lb
  • EAN: 9781800180000
  • Categories: Courses & Dishes - GeneralEssays & NarrativesRegional & Ethnic - General

About the Author

Anastasia Miari is a freelance writer whose work spans fashion magazine editorial and copy for fashion brands to travel features for a range of publications from the Telegraph to easyJet Traveller magazine. @Anastasia_Miari
Iska Lupton works as a creative producer, creating multi-sensory food experiences across the globe and styling food for various brands and publications. @IskaLupton
@GrandDishes

Praise for this book

"In this delightful debut, a pair of British Gen Z'ers pay homage to grandmothers with dishes inspired by a generation whose culinary contributions reach far beyond their homes. In an ambitious effort to document the recipes of "grannies of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities" the authors visited grandmothers in Cuba, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S...Like the time-tested recipes within it, this is made with love and enriching in more ways than one." -- Publishers Weekly

"What makes Grand Dishes most fascinating is the sensitive way it's recorded the voices of a generation of women whose lives were largely domestic, quietly led and underrecognized." -- Toronto Star

"​​In an age when celebrity and trendy cookbooks have become the norm, "Grand Dishes" gives voice to the women whose largest platform is their own families...reads like a multi-family memoir, full of wit, stories both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and beautiful dishes." -- Epoch Times

"[P]rofiles 61 great female cooks around the world who also happen to be grandmothers. It's a gumbo of profiles of women from across different cultures, along with their signature dishes." -- CNN Travel