<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">You are what you eat, the saying goes, and you become who you eat it with. After a lifetime of curating dishes and dinner companions from Paris to Istanbul and Budapest to Beijing, Gün Benderli knows this better than most. Whether discussing genius over a meal with legendary poets Nazım Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén or making mayonnaise with the resistance fighter Bert, whether sitting at a banquet held by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai or peddling soup to her picky grandkids, </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 1)">A Cuisine of Exile</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> finds this militant radio broadcaster turned award-winning translator dishing up a feast for the stomach, heart, and mind.</span></p><p></p>