From the temple festivals of Bali to the wine harvests of Georgia to the mountain wilds of Patagonia, Anik See has circled the globe by foot and by bike. Here, in a collection of stories about people, places and cuisine, Anik recounts the warmth and kindness of strangers, the beauty of our world around us and the discovery of cultures and traditions through the most common language, food. Accompanied by delicious recipes, A Fork in the Road will transport you to faraway places and tastes that will linger long after you've returned home again. 
This intelligent new voice in Canadian travel writing shares with us her experiences in Georgia, Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Patagonia, Chile, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Northern Argentina, Bali, Java, and British Columbia through her beautiful prose and her breathtaking photography. There are eight pages of colour photos, as well as countless black and white photos and maps throughout.

A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food and Travel

BARBER, James

See, Anik

CDG Books Canada, Inc. / Macmillan Canada

A high school math teacher drifts from a moored boat to a downtown trance club, while negotiating her problematic relationship with an alcoholic older brother. A displaced Toronto book designer deliberates dreams, daydreams and delusions that result from a lone encounter with philosopher Mark Kingwell. A dissatisfied nomad traverses the globe, from Vancouver to Persepolis, chasing fleeting intimacies of her own as she tries to conjure confessions for the dead.   In these six stories Anik See meticulously deconstructs love, art, and identity, blurring the distinctions between momentary lust and long-term intimacy, and loss and fulfillment. Throughout these explorations of somewhat muddled lives, See demonstrates an uncanny ability to distill often unsettling truths in prose that is intelligent, subtle, and unerringly cool. Intricate yet precise, postcard and other stories offers the reader a lucid perspective on the blurry, bewildering business of being human.

postcard and other stories

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Freehand Books

The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation. In its simplest sense, it describes a feeling of longing for something that is now gone, and may yet return, but in all likelihood can never be recaptured. In Saudade: The Possibilities of Place, traveller Anik See traces her attempts to reclaim this loss in a series of informal essays that take us from the salt plains of Wood Buffalo National Park and the mountains of British Columbia to the fishing ports of Sri Lanka and the rough roads of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Whether at a fishfry in the Northwest Territories, at the post-9/11 Canada-US border, on the ultimate road trip through Australia or at a summer carnival in Santiago de Cuba, See is on a continual quest for simplicity, interrogating the perceived distance between privilege and want. Quietly, insistently, these thoughtful essays ask what we might accomplish if we said no to entitlement; if, instead, we used our privilege to help us better understand human nature. By examining a multitude of landscapes, and by uncovering characters whose most important possession is the landscape around them, these essays examine what it takes for us to feel alive in a time when we can have everything, when our needs seem limitless. Throughout this psychogeographic diary, crowded with rituals of faith, death and renewal, See asks, again and again, 'How much will be enough?'

Saudade: The Possibilities of Place

Travel

Canada

Coach House Books

One of the most accessible entrees into another culture is its food a lesson Anik See has learned well. In A Taste for Adventure, See describes in loving detail her gastronomic forays into Iran, Indonesia, Turkey, and nine other countries. On bicycle, See travels the breathtaking mountains of Chile’s Patagonia region and partakes of a roadside asado (barbecue). Riding into post-Soviet Georgia, she lunches with a mercenary-turned-cop then continues to a wine-harvest feast in the mountains. In a savory twist on travel literature, each chapter concludes with selected recipes from See’s excursions, including Malaysian roti (flatbread), Mexican pozole (pork with hominy), and Georgian adzhapsandali (ratatouille). 38 original recipes complement the text.

A Taste for Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey around the World

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Seal Press

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