A Cuisine of Exile

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You are what you eat the saying goes and you become who you eat it with. After a lifetime of curating dishes and dinner companions from Paris to Istanbul and Budapest to Beijing Gün Benderli knows this better than most. Whether discussing genius over a meal with legendary poets Naz?m Hikmet Pablo Neruda and Nicolás Guillén or making mayonnaise with the resistance fighter Bert whether sitting at a banquet held by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai or peddling soup to her picky grandkids </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(255 0 0 1)>A Cuisine of Exile</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> finds this militant radio broadcaster turned award-winning translator dishing up a feast for the stomach heart and mind.</span></p>