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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Fuchsia Dunlop

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Description:The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the first truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved food traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking has ensured that few foreigners have experienced anything of its richness and sophistication - but today that is beginning to change.In Invitation to a Banquet, award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the culture, history and philosophy informing real Chinese cookery. Each chapter examines the way a particular dish expresses a singular aspect of Chinese gastronomy, from the importance of soup to the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Starting with sweet-and-sour pork, that classic of British Chinese takeaway cooking, Fuchsia examines the ways in which Chinese food has been understood and misunderstood in the West since its earliest days as an immigrant cuisine. Then the real feast begins: a journey into Chinese food as it is made, cooked, eaten and considered in China itself, through a diverse series of dishes including Mapo Tofu, Dongpo Pork, Knife-scraped Noodles and Pomelo Pith with Shrimp Eggs.Weaving together history, mouthwatering descriptions of food and on-the-ground research conducted over the course of three decades, Invitation to a Banquet is a lively and groundbreaking tribute to the pleasures and mysteries of Chinese cuisine.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food. To get started finding Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the first truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved food traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking has ensured that few foreigners have experienced anything of its richness and sophistication - but today that is beginning to change.In Invitation to a Banquet, award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the culture, history and philosophy informing real Chinese cookery. Each chapter examines the way a particular dish expresses a singular aspect of Chinese gastronomy, from the importance of soup to the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Starting with sweet-and-sour pork, that classic of British Chinese takeaway cooking, Fuchsia examines the ways in which Chinese food has been understood and misunderstood in the West since its earliest days as an immigrant cuisine. Then the real feast begins: a journey into Chinese food as it is made, cooked, eaten and considered in China itself, through a diverse series of dishes including Mapo Tofu, Dongpo Pork, Knife-scraped Noodles and Pomelo Pith with Shrimp Eggs.Weaving together history, mouthwatering descriptions of food and on-the-ground research conducted over the course of three decades, Invitation to a Banquet is a lively and groundbreaking tribute to the pleasures and mysteries of Chinese cuisine.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food. To get started finding Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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