Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World

Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 March 2019
Pages
256
ISBN
9781789140071

Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World

All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect of railway history for more than a century - from dinners in dining cars to lunches at station buffets to foods purchased from platform vendors. For many travellers, the experience of eating on a railway journey is often a highlight of the trip, a major part of the ‘romance of the rails’.

Food on the Move focuses on the culinary history of these famous journeys on five continents, from the earliest days of rail travel to the present. The engaging story and vivid illustrations invite readers to discover an array of railway feasts: haute cuisine in the elegant dining carriages of the Orient Express, American steak-and-eggs on the Santa Fe Super Chief, and home-cooked regional foods along the Trans-Siberian tracks. Readers will be tempted to eat their way across Canada’s vast interior and Australia’s spectacular and colourful Outback; grab an infamous “British railway sandwich’ to munch on the Flying Scotsman; snack on spicy samosas on the Darjeeling Himalayan "Toy Train’; dine at high speed on Japan’s "Bullet Train’; and sip South African wines in a Blue Train luxury lounge car featuring windows of glass fused with gold dust. 

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