“National Dish” is the story of her quest to understand why certain foods, like pizza, ramen and tapas, are adopted as symbols of their places of origin.
The result is a fast-paced, entertaining travelogue, peppered with compact history lessons that reveal the surprising ways dishes become iconic.
In Naples, Italy, von Bremzen settles into a flat in the still ungentrified Spanish Quarter.
Somewhere here, between hanging laundry, loose pit bulls and the beatific presence of Diego Maradona, is the secret to a true pizza margherita.
The legend goes like this: In 1889, Naples receives a visit from King Umberto and his beautiful, charismatic queen, Margherita.
Persons:
Anya von Bremzen, ” Anya von Bremzen, Von Bremzen’s, von Bremzen, Diego Maradona, margherita, King Umberto, Margherita, Raffaele Esposito
Organizations:
carbs
Locations:
Naples, Tokyo, Seville, Oaxaca, Istanbul, Italy