Clarke Wanders: The World: OR HOW A VERY SOBER MOSTLY VEGAN SPINSTER CHEF WANDERED A WELCOMING WORLD FOR A YEAR

Have you thought about chucking it all and heading out there? Here are the stories the recipes and the pictures of my trip around the world. Food is personal. So lets do just that by sharing the tale of my almost year-long journey. Stories of and recipes from the places I explored and the things I learned inward and outward along the way. How I sold all that I had wandered got lost found my way discovered ate cooked and shared marvelous and delicious food. Born and raised a tiny village in upstate New York I am a culinary veteran with over 30 years of experience working in restaurants catering in the natural foods industry and as a culinary educator. Now I find myself to be a 49-year old dedicated devourer who prefers street food to a typical white linen fine dining experience. I was a winner of Denvers Best Home Chef contest appeared as a guest chef on several morning programs and once competed on an obscure Food Network trivia game show where I came in 2nd and won a years supply of Jordan Almonds and Junior Mints. And now I have a podcast Something About Food? so that I can carry on that world of food conversation with diverse guests. Noodles dumplings lentil dishes and far too many pan au chocolats went into this chefs wander. I visited 18 countries met 3 donkeys lost my favorite pair of plaid Chuck Taylors in Marrakech and was gratified to be able to experience the world and see it as the messed up wonderful and joyful home it is. I was a solo woman abroad traveling in foreign lands but I found myself at home almost everywhere I wandered.