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Book Synopsis"Listening to the gentle lapping of the river, I ponder the strange fate that brought me, a Soviet kid from a small Russian town, right here, to this very table in the middle of the Surinamese jungle on this particular night." From early childhood spend in an akademgorodok (purpose-built academic community) in the USSR, Kaminski has been obsessed with food. Fuelled by ancestral wanderlust, as an adult she put her obsession to good use, contributing to several dozen Lonely Planet and Rough Guides guidebooks and traversing six continents in search of sustenance and something even less tangible. Part-memoir, part-travelogue, "Eyeball Tacos & Kangeroo Stew" explores a life less ordinary through the prism of memorable meals, from sharing burgers with death row inmates in San Quentin Prison to feasting on spam and cassava with the crocodile-skinned men of Papua New Guinea's Middle Sepik, and being adopted by an Aboriginal family in the Outback over a pot of kangaroo stew. Through breaking bread with strangers and travel to the further corners of the former Soviet Union and beyond, the author discovers that her roots stretch further than she'd ever imagined and that kinship can be found in the strangest of places.
Table of ContentsForeword by Zora O'Neill Introduction 1 Chapter 1.... DEATH ROW - United States, Egypt Chapter 2 ON TRIAL - Ukraine Chapter 3 ISLAND IN THE SUN - Jamaica Chapter 4 WANDERING JEW - Israel, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Chapter 5 RIDING THE RAILS - Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan Chapter 6 AMONG THE TSAATAN - Mongolia Chapter 7 JUNGLE DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH - Chile, Nepal, Peru, Colombia Chapter 8 RAINMAKERS AND CROCODILE SKIN - Papua New Guinea Chapter 9 THE BLESSING OF BARON KRIMINEL - Haiti Chapter 10 HONORARY WONGUTHA - Australia Chapter 11 DINNER WITH TOM JONES - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia Chapter 12 THE ARCTIC CALLS - Canada Chapter 13 EYEBALL TACOS AND RENEGADE SAINTS - Mexico Chapter 14 ACCIDENTAL IMMIGRANT - Spain
