Culinary battles: Macanese flavors meet wrestling flair.
If you're at the crossroads of a love for electrifying sports entertainment and a passion for rich, diverse Macanese cuisine, this book is your ringside ticket. It's a body slam of flavor, with recipes that are as much about the story and culture as they are about the taste. Discover a side of pro-wrestling and cooking that you never knew paired so well together.
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ISBN: 9789814914093
Authors:
Barrie Sherwood
Publisher: Penguin Random House Southeast Asia
Date of Publication: 2021-11-16
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.0
(rated by 2 readers)
Description
Macau, that redolent, overcrowded hive of faded Portuguese culture, glossy American casinos, and overarching Mainland governance is what hapless, lovelorn Zeke Oliveira calls home. An eccentric himself, for the most part he's at ease with the city's eccentricities, but when his best friend is murdered Zeke goes on a search for those responsible, a search that takes him into an undercurrent of crime beneath the city that he never knew existed. An adventure, a social commentary and an unconventional cookbook, The Macanese Pro-Wrestler's Cookbook is ultimately the portrait of a man struggling to find a balance between the cultural identity he has inherited and his own individual destiny.
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Culinary battles: Macanese flavors meet wrestling flair.
If you're at the crossroads of a love for electrifying sports entertainment and a passion for rich, diverse Macanese cuisine, this book is your ringside ticket. It's a body slam of flavor, with recipes that are as much about the story and culture as they are about the taste. Discover a side of pro-wrestling and cooking that you never knew paired so well together.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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