TY - BOOK AU - Shaikh,Michael TI - The last sweet bite: stories and recipes of culinary heritage lost and found SN - 9780593442845 AV - TX652 .S49177 2025 U1 - 641.5 23/eng/20250612 PY - 2025///] CY - New York PB - Crown KW - Cooking KW - Social aspects KW - Cultural property KW - Destruction and pillage KW - Protection KW - War and society KW - Patrimoine culturel KW - Destruction et pillage KW - Guerre et soci�et�e KW - recipes KW - aat KW - Recipes KW - lcgft KW - Recettes KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281); Author's note -- Prologue: The language of food -- The Czech Republic: How the communists tried to kill a cuisine -- Sri Lanka and Tamil diaspora: Call it what it is : Eelam tamil cuisine -- Myanmar and Bangladesh: Rohingya cuisine, the incredible food you may never know -- China and the Uyghurs: The geocide of a cuisine -- Bolivia and the Andes: Cooking with Coca -- The Pueblo nations -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography N2 - Explores the profound impact of conflict on global food traditions, blending travel writing, memoir and cookbook to uncover how war reshapes culinary practices and jeopardizes ancient recipes, while showcasing the resilience of home cooks and activists working to preserve their culinary heritage in the face of violence ER -