A Dangerous Recipe

Celebrity chef Corran Brook scours the globe for the world s best recipes and foods, for his ambitious compendium, The Story of Food . But when traveling through Asia and chancing on a rare and extraordinary meal he cannot decipher, his struggle to unravel its secrets draws him deeper into a mystery of corruption and intrigue, it proves difficult to extricate himself from. A Dangerous Recipe is a salutary story of greed, infatuation, and obsession. But more than a hunt for perfection and the sublime, the book is also an insight into western attitudes to world culture; whether a bug, monument, fossil or dish, there s a compulsive need to control, curate and make it one s own.