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Michael Booth is the award-winning, best-selling author of seven works of non-fiction, as well as a journalist, broadcaster and speaker. He writes predominantly about travel, food, France, Japan, East Asia and the Nordic region.
Food and travel writer Michael Booth sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan and he and his young family travel the length of the country – from bear-infested, beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested, seaweed-loving Okinawa. What do the Japanese know about food?
Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians, on and off, for over ten years, perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and character traits and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic that has engulfed the rest of the world, whether it be for their food, television, social systems or chunky knitwear.
Japan: Same as it ever was. I’ll post about what’s new (to me at least) on the Japanese food scene in a bit, but for now here’s a brief round up of the things which r.. April 4, 2013 1 2. Faroe Islands. Michael Booth. Other food travel.
Contact Michael Booth directly at hello@michael-booth.com. Twitter: @themichaelbooth. Substack: michaelbooth.substack.com
World-weary, distracted and more often than not the worse for wine, Michael Booth really needed to make some major changes to his life. Instead, he embarks on an over-ambitious, self-indulgent attempt to write the definitive book on Indian food, taking his wife and two young children with him.
May 6, 2009 · This is best exemplified by one dish: miso soup. As Professor Ikeda discovered, konbu has more glutamate than any other foodstuff on earth, while katsuobushi, the other main base ingredient of the dashi, or ‘stock’ used to make miso soup (along with water), is one of the richest natural sources of inosinates.
Jul 12, 2009 · A gigantic tapeworm, preserved for posterity at the Naka Meguro Parasite Museum. A wonderful collection dedicated to the worms and weevils that invade the human body. Seemed to me like lots of the visitors were there on a date, which is odd. Beats TGI Friday though, I guess.
Jun 2, 2009 · Shimonoseki is Japan’s fugu town. You've probably heard about fugu – it’s the fish that nearly killed Homer Simpson (after his long dark night of the soul, Marge only knew he was alive because his dribble was still warm), famous for a deadly neurotoxin secreted by its liver and various other body parts, and many times more poisonous than cyanide.
Michael Booth COP15. Doing my bit to further the important work in Copenhagen this week. MONOCLE. December 8, 2009 0 0 Denmark Michael Booth Copenhagen’s Kødbyen. I meant to mention, for all those Michael Booth completists out there, that I had a piece in the Guardian the other day about Kødbyen, Cop.. November 4, 2009 0 0
