Bite by Bite

Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from nature

In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia.

Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.

Bite by Bite offers a rich and textured kaleidoscope of vignettes and visions into the world of food and nature, drawn together by intimate and humorous personal reflections.

She's Done It Again!

A delight to swallow whole or savor over weeks and a touch of shaved ice! What a world of wonders Aimee Nezhukumatathil funnels into every inch, page and anecdote of this marvel of a book!

Loaded with fun facts and …the author generalizing and hating on “white people”

Very fun listen and full of interesting information about food. It is hard to keep listening when she keeps lamenting there are too many “white people” in the places where she goes. Wonder how she would feel in Norway or Poland or Ukraine—
Are there too many dark skinned people for her in Africa? Very bold to go this far in a book that is supposed to be a feel-good story.

A bite of culture

All well for me as a Puertorriqueña, I can relate to many of the food she exposed in the book.