Cookbook giveaway - The World on a Plate

July 22, 2015·Darcie

The World on a Plate

Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in a mouthwatering cultural history with The World on a Plate, the new cookbook from Mina Holland. (The book was previously published as The Edible Atlas in the UK. Read an excerpt from The World on a Plate, plus get a recipe from the book!)

The cookbook has received great acclaim, voted Best Culinary Travel Book (UK) by Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and named a finalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award.

We're delighted to offer 3 copies of The World on a Plate to Members in the US and 3 copies of The Edible Atlas to Members in the UK. The contest is limited to EYB Members in the US & UK only. One of the entry options is to answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post:

Which country's cuisine history most intrigues you?

Please note that you must be signed into the Rafflecopter contest before posting the comment or your entry won't be counted. Entries from non-Members will be discarded. If you are not already a Member, you can join at no cost. The contest ends August 19, 2015.

78 comments

echilt5July 23, 2015

Thailand

sbh2006July 22, 2015

Not a cuisine but a region; I'm fascinated by the food pathways of the Middle East, also of the Jewish Diaspora and Buddhist vegetarian cultures.

matagJuly 23, 2015

Italy!

TeaLadyJuly 22, 2015

Indian food with all the spices has already been what I turn to when I want to try something new.

Thanks for the chance.

kedmistonJuly 22, 2015

I think Spain or Portugal most intrigues me. I would also love to learn more about Scandinavian cuisines. Thank you for the chance to win!

NikkiPixieJuly 23, 2015

For me it's the way one's cuisine enters the history of another's...like Persian food entering India and becoming dishes like biryani. Or the way the Central American tomato became ingrained in Italian cuisine. The list goes on!

kbgerthJuly 22, 2015

I think it would be fun to explore Spain and Portugal as I have not done that so far. :-)

TrishaCPJuly 22, 2015

Everywhere! But if I had to choose, Mexico.

enationJuly 22, 2015

Korean and south East Asian countries

dbielickJuly 23, 2015

Germany

cbendixeJuly 23, 2015

Not necessarily a specific cuisine, but the way that products from the New World like chiles and tomatoes and potatoes made their way into becoming staples of Asian and European cuisines.

pitterpat4July 23, 2015

Germany

ravensfanJuly 23, 2015

Spain

SilverSageJuly 23, 2015

My newest passions are India, Morocco & Mexico.

dangoldJuly 23, 2015

Morocco

DeneenmJuly 23, 2015

Moroccan food is my current obsession!

JuneHawkJuly 23, 2015

I'm a Francophile so I have to go with French.

tmcgintyJuly 23, 2015

France

love2chowJuly 23, 2015

Indonesia - sitting at the crossroads of lots of cultural influences.

dmihicJuly 23, 2015

I think Georgian cuisine might be fun!

MariarosaJuly 23, 2015

I'd like to know more about Turkish cuisine.

skippyJuly 23, 2015

Creole Cuisine of Louisiana (US) is a fusion of French, West Africa, Spanish, Caribbean, German, Irish (and many more) influences. The history of this food culture is deep and as rich as the food itself.

rosiekittyJuly 23, 2015

China! All of the different regions fascinate me.

HelenBJuly 23, 2015

Regional cuisines of Italy. We know there are differences, would love to know why. Thanks.

SfgordonJuly 23, 2015

Vietnamese food pre- and post-colonization. I also love Dan Jurafsky's book, The Language of Food, because it presents a fascinating look at the intertwined culinary history of many world cuisines. There are some surprising connections.

trudys_personJuly 23, 2015

I'm interested in the cuisine of India, and colonial influences in it.

And I'm bummed that Canadians cannot win this book. American publishers dominate the Canadian books business, and it would be nice if they acknowledged the fact that we are customers.

ndysonJuly 24, 2015

Germany; any country in South America; Thailand

percussion03July 23, 2015

Everything Middle Eastern

SaraJuly 23, 2015

I would like to learn more about Scandinavian cuisine; Persian cuisine interests me also.

JanSchollJuly 23, 2015

By far, Indian food because there are so many variants.

lsgourmetJuly 23, 2015

For the past five years I have set a goal to learn a foreign cuisine by cooking that cuisine at least three to four days every week. I started by cooking my way through Claudia Roden's The Food of Spain and Penelope Casa's Tapas. Last year I spent cooking Indian food starting with Madjur Jaffrey's Invitation to Indian Cook and then relying on Pushpesh Pant's Food of India and other Indian cookbooks on the different areas of India like the Spice Coast. This year I've moved further east and been cooking Asian from a few different cuisines, Kenneth Hom's Travels with a Wok, Daguid's Seduction of Rice, But I've been taking side trips to Korea as well, so this is sort of a fusion year for me. Just love traveling the world through my cookbooks. All food intriques me.

sillyvyJuly 24, 2015

Vietnam

DcotterJuly 24, 2015

Mediterranean. There are so many different flavor profiles and combinations.

sabrina7August 17, 2015

Indian and the middle east

lindaeatsherbooksJuly 24, 2015

I am most interested in the history of Japanese cuisine.

tcjanesJuly 24, 2015

Indonesia, particularly Burma.

ClydesdaleclopperJuly 24, 2015

Spanish cuisine is my favourite

kayanelsonJuly 24, 2015

Spain intrigues me the most.

margaretahallJuly 24, 2015

Turkey, since it has been influenced from so many different directions.

vellnerJuly 24, 2015

Persian cooking + anything Mediterranean.

PDXBOOKSJuly 24, 2015

Japan!

kimtrevJuly 24, 2015

New Zealand

BikkieJuly 24, 2015

Chinese cuisine -it is so varied

ninahayesthompsonJuly 25, 2015

I'm really interested in Greek food. It's an interesting mix of flavours associated with western Europe and Middle Eastern flavours.

CulinaryTravelsJuly 27, 2015

Persian food

pgarciaJuly 26, 2015

India ... I'm going to spend three months there this fall. Looking forward to trying lots of new tastes!

LarkspurJuly 25, 2015

It's hard to pick just one...Argentina has been a recent interest.

JulesCkJuly 31, 2015

I love the cuisine of provincial France, but also the southern Mediterranean.

sir_ken_gJuly 25, 2015

Reading through all of the comments I have done most of them.
I like to try food from counties I have visited.
Current favorite is Burmese

angelanorrJuly 25, 2015

Burmese

CloveJuly 24, 2015

I'm reading Anatolia and loving it - Turkish cuisine is my new interest.

sharifahJuly 31, 2015

middle east

pandapotamusJuly 25, 2015

thai!

sarahcooksJuly 31, 2015

I am interested in ancient food cultures from anywhere.

lilhamJuly 27, 2015

Mexican

homeeccentricJuly 27, 2015

Italy!

tjnelson1hotmailJuly 28, 2015

My current obsession is Turkey.

monique.potelJuly 30, 2015

I would love to explore ethiopien cuisine

tikiluJuly 27, 2015

Being british I'm always told we have no good food of our own, that for food culture we should look to other countries but I am intrigued by how food has changed in Britain through history as our travels around the world and bringing ingredients home has vastly changed our diet. Without bringing new foods home we wouldn't have spices, sugar or even potatoes and where would modern british culture be without the foods that come from all these ingredients. Just like our alphabet our culinary traditions have been drawn from all over the world.

LynledAugust 1, 2015

I am interested in Mediterranean and Turkish food- although I never met a cuisine I didn't like!!!

KatiefayhutsonJuly 28, 2015

Turkey

tcjanesAugust 1, 2015

Great Britain.

rosiedunninghamJuly 30, 2015

Definitely the middle east! The spices, colours and flavours really excite me in the kitchen. It's all so fresh and inviting! Wonderful giveaway. Rosie xx

NancithJuly 28, 2015

Turkey & Greece (sounds like Thanksgiving!)

kbennallJuly 30, 2015

Present obsessions are the Middle East/Turkey and Japan.

southerncookerJuly 29, 2015

I love trying foods from all countries but Korean is the one that most intrigues me.

ballenJuly 27, 2015

Italy

jd5761July 27, 2015

Thailand

susan gJuly 27, 2015

Korea - the connections between food and history, culture, religion, and other factors is a fascinating study. My experience with Korean food is so positive, and I would hope the book covers the varied aspects.

ladibyrdAugust 16, 2015

Catalan, Middle Eastern, and Morocco

priyamaineAugust 9, 2015

Turkey & Greece!

MayandbillAugust 11, 2015

Portugal for me!

earthnfireAugust 16, 2015

SO hard to narrow down to one... I'm intrigued by Indian spices and all things Latin American

rchesserAugust 9, 2015

I'd have to say France.

TheSpicedLifeAugust 5, 2015

Why don't you just ask me to pick a favorite child!? Harrumph! LOL.... I think I will say India. But Mexico was a close second.

annieskiAugust 9, 2015

During the Olympics, we try to eat from a different country's cuisine every night. This book would be a great resource.

We'd like to try something new from Tunisa!

thecharlahAugust 7, 2015

China

SiegalAugust 3, 2015

Sub Sahara African countries intrigue me the most bc o know so little