Synopsis This Unusual cookbook gives recipes from places as far flung as Italy, France, Egypt and Australia. The author, a widely traveled ethnologist intersperses the recipes with piquant and often funny anecdotes that bring alive little traditions and stories about cooking and serving of different kinds of vegetables around the world. From delicious soups and salads to unusual sauces, from different kinds of rice and roti to mouthwatering desserts, this is innovative, exciting fare guaranteed to stimulate even the most jaded palate.