“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” There’s hardly any disputing this old maxim, and we should consider that the stomach is also an important route for connecting cultures. When I was more or less a citizen of the world for five and a half years, I always made it a point to eat the same food the locals ate – with only a few exceptions. I had learned quickly that to refuse to eat what was offered at my host’s table was to offend him or her, because what we eat i