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Michael Booth

Michael Booth

English food and travel writer

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Michael Booth is an English food and travel writer and journalist who writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines including the Independent on Sunday, Condé Nast Traveller, Monocle[1] and Time Out, among many other publications at home and abroad.[2]

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Career

In June 2010, Michael Booth won the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel. His book on Japanese cooking, Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking, was adapted into a Japanese anime television series which began airing in April 2015.[3]

Personal life

He has a wife, Lissen, and two children, Asger and Emil. They live in Denmark.[4]

Bibliography

  • Just As Well I'm Leaving: To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen (2005)
  • Sacré Cordon Bleu: What the French Know About Cooking (2008)
  • Doing without Delia: Tales of Triumph and Disaster in a French Kitchen (2009)
  • Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking [ja] (2009)
    • Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan (retitled US reprint) 2016
  • Eat, Pray, Eat: One Man's Accidental Search for Equanimity, Equilibrium and Enlightenment (2011)
  • The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle (2014)
  • Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your Food Safe ... and How You Can (2014), with Jennifer Brown
  • The Meaning of Rice: a culinary tour of Japan (2017)
  • Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan (2020)

References

  1. [1]
    "Michael Booth Monocle". Monacle. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  2. [2]
    "Michael Booth". Random House. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  3. [3]
    "Sushi and Beyond Book About Japanese Food Gets TV Anime".
  4. [4]
    "Michael Booth". Random House. Retrieved 27 November 2009.


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