First Catch Your Calamari: Travels with an Appetite (A Writer's Food Diary)

Here is a book for everyone who loves food and travel. It is a book that will introduce you to the foods of Africa, Europe and the USA with great company along the way. This is not a gourmand's book of overindulgence, but a slow savouring of the food that has nourished the author's imagination and taste over a lifetime.

The son of a baker, Julian Roup grew up in South Africa with two powerful food cultures, his mother's French-Dutch-Norwegian heritage and his father's Eastern European Jewis...