Product Description

The author really was offered dried lizard-on-a-stick, in China! Not to mention antelope head stew in Mozambique, and hedgehog's hidnums (whatever they are!). If you are a vegetarian who enjoys travel, you will know the perils of ordering something which sounds good on a menu, but...The Vegetarian Traveller is the world's first guidebook to the words and phrases needed to order vegetarian food in over 200 countries worldwide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #948729 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Author
A Guidebook and Phrasebook for Vegetarian Travelers
"The Vegetarian Traveler: A Guide To Eating Green in Over 200 Countries" enables traveling vegetarians to make their dietary desires known in virtually any country on the planet. I began researching and writing this book because of my desire to communicate my eating preferences while traveling and my frustration with the limitations of standard phrasebooks. Each country listing in the book features a general description of the types of food a visiting vegetarian might expect to find in that country as a whole and, where relevant, in particular regions. It then provides a list of words and fill-in-the-blank phrases, together with phonetic pronunciations, in the main language or languages of the country. I have included phrases in over 110 languages. The list is broad enough to allow vegans or strict vegetarians, ovo-lacto vegetarians, pesco-vegetarians, and even "vegetarians" who avoid only red meat to order their preferred food. My goal is not to make the us! er sound like a native speaker, or to replace standard phrasebooks entirely, but simply to allow a vegetarian to get the point across. It is my hope that "Speaking Vegetarian" will allow vegetarians to travel more easily, more comfortably, and without offending their well-meaning hosts. Happy travels. Please note that the "The Vegetarian Traveler" is a revised and expanded version of the book originally published by a different publisher under the name "Speaking Vegetarian."

Customer Reviews

A good general guide but no enough detail
When I saw this book I thought brilliant that is just the thing I need! It does cover a massive amount of countries and has a small description of what to expect when you get there. But it is lacking in many ways too, If they had settled on not covering quite so many countries (like most of the African languages and including a section on the Vatican city!) it could have concentrated on more useful information that is needed. It is all very well saying "I am vegetarian and don't eat meat of fish". Some places in the world still don't understand what you mean. You need to know the words for different types of veg and also meats so you can avoid them if talking to a waiter or looking at a menu. for example Ham or Sea food which in my experience is often in countries which don't know about vegi's are considered not meat or fish.

But if you are going on a massive world tour and visiting every place under the sun it would be very useful. but if you are going to one or two countries I would advise just getting a pharse book for those places