The China Post
Date: September 27, 2017
Jacob Soll, author of “The Reckoning”, is a globe-trotting professor, yet Taiwan
Jacob Soll, author of “The Reckoning”
caught him by surprise.
Taiwan “wasn’t what I expected. I’m very impressed,” Soll told The China Post during his recent visit to promote the Taiwan version of his book. “It reminds me of Holland, it is not the big country but it is very balanced, careful, highly educated, not very extreme, not showing off but also living very well.”
“I’ve been very impressed by this country. For me this is a huge discovery. It’s like a secret that no one talks about Taiwan,” he said.
The professor, who lived above a restaurant when he studied in France and had spent many nights learning to cook from the chefs, saved his best words for Taiwanese food, which he described as world-class yet unpretentious.
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