Michael Booth is an English food and travel writer and journalist who writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines including the ''

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'' and '' Time Out'', among many other publications at home and abroad.

Career

In June 2010, Michael Booth won the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel. His book on Japanese cooking, ''Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking'', was adapted into a Japanese

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television series which began airing in April 2015.

Personal life

He has a wife, Lissen, and two children, Asger and Emil. They live in

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Bibliography

*''Just As Well I'm Leaving: To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen'' (2005) *''Sacré Cordon Bleu: What the French Know About Cooking'' (2008) *''Doing without Delia: Tales of Triumph and Disaster in a French Kitchen'' (2009) *' (2009) **''Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan '' (retitled US reprint) 2016 *''Eat, Pray, Eat: One Man's Accidental Search for Equanimity, Equilibrium and Enlightenment'' (2011) *'' The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle'' (2014) *''The Meaning of Rice: a culinary tour of Japan'' (2017) *''Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan'' (2020)

References

External links

Michael Booth website
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