The Food Traveler’s Handbook provides a compelling argument for using food as a primary focus in discovering the world. Using this handbook as a guide, you will learn how to eat safely in developing countries, source cheap but delicious streetside meals and discover how to make food a tool for understanding a new place and connecting to its local culture.
The Food Traveler’s Handbook offers:
- How to discover the world through food.
- Delicious stories to learn from.
- How to use food-specific themes to plan long and short-term trips.
- Ways to source cheap, safe meals in developing countries.
- Tips and tricks from chefs, food writers and long-term travellers.
- Ethical considerations when eating in far-flung destinations.
- Guidelines tailored to travelers with special dietary needs such as food allergies (celiac disease, nut allergies, etc), vegetarians.
- Packing, planning and learning resources for the food traveler.
**Available in paperback and most e-readers**
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About Jodi Ettenberg
Former lawyer Jodi Ettenberg is the founder of Legal Nomads, which chronicles her years of food and travel adventures. She has been featured in The New York Times, BBC Travel, Grub Street and other publications. She can often be found at a street stall in Southeast Asia.
Reviews | Author’s Note | Table of Contents | Sample Chapter.
Reviews of The Food Traveler’s Handbook
Pad Naem from Chiang Mai, Thailand
“A great resource and enticing companion for anyone who likes to eat and to travel. Jodi encourages us all to engage with the world through food. Her handbook is a lively reminder that if we stay open to the possibilities, food can be a gateway to expanding our horizons wherever we are.”
Naomi Duguid
James Beard award-winning writer
Author of Burma: Rivers of Flavor
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“If you’re looking to read one book about how to eat out while traveling, this is it. Jodi understands that it isn’t just about the food. It’s also a quest, a chance to create an adventure, a memory, and a connection to the local culture.”
Tyler Cowen
Author of An Economist Gets Lunch
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“Jodi Ettenberg provides a personal and practical road map to understanding the part food plays in cultures and, just as importantly, how to better experience those cultures through street-level eats. As a bonus, she guides readers in navigating the perils of potentially dicey food, favoring caution instead of fear.”
Spud Hilton
Travel Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
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“Part Bourdain. Part Hemingway. All awesome!“
C.C. Chapman
Author of Amazing Things Will Happen
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**Available in paperback and most e-readers**
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A Note From the Author
I grew up in a household that was not focused on food. We ate – did we ever! – but spicy foods and creative cooking were not part of my childhood. It was only when I started traveling that I realized how varied foods around the world could be. Each region had a distinct way of cooking and spicing, and a geographic food footprint to call its own. Discovering food by eating it abroad went far beyond the international restaurants I sampled growing up in Montreal and later while working as a lawyer in New York.
I traveled for shorter periods on vacations from my law firm, but I wanted to see more. Once I had saved up enough funds to quit for a year of travel, I left New York to see the world for myself. That one year morphed into two, then three and now almost four-and-a-half years. As I traveled, my journey shifted perceptibly from a focus on places and people, to a focus on those places and people through their food.
When I left New York, I started a website, Legal Nomads, to chronicle my misadventures and keep my friends and family apprised of my whereabouts. Over the years I’ve been thrilled to see it grew into its own, with a passionate community of readers who also love to experience the world. And they love their food.
As I continued to focus more and more on the anthropology of what we eat (and why we eat it), and the idea of a food book took form. I received emails from worried travelers who wanted to eat at street stalls but feared becoming ill. At the same time, I found myself encouraging others who did not focus on food to use eating as a guide, a way of understanding a new place.
The Food Traveler’s Handbook explores both of these sentiments. It addresses why food matters and how travelers can explore the world through the many ingredients we find on our plates. It also tackles very valid safety concerns, from sourcing fresh eats to finding market stalls that serve hygienic meals. The book focuses primarily on cheaper food in developing countries, but its principles and tips can be applied worldwide.
For more about the book, please see my short introductory video:
Table of Contents
Sample Chapter
The Food Traveler’s Handbook shares how to find cheap, safe, and delicious food anywhere in the world.