What is International Cooking?

Every cookbook makes choices, and obviously international cooking is a broad topic. (Only a cookbook about a very specific slice of cooking, say Majorcan cuisine, could even begin to claim to be comprehensive, and still it would have to be a very good cookbook about Majorcan cuisine.) It would be fair, therefore, for you to wonder what kinds of international dishes are included here. So let me explain my goals about cooking and cookbook writing in general and international cuisine in particular.