Chile Pepper in China Dott Brian R.
Chile Pepper in China Dott Brian R. Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao's boast that revolution…
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Chile Pepper in China Dott Brian R.
Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao's boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking.
Yet there were no chiles anywhere in China prior to the 1570s, when they were introduced from the Americas.Brian R. Indeed, they are so common that many Chinese assume they are native. Dott explores how the nonnative chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language, and cultural identity.
He details how its versatility became essential to a variety of regional cuisines and swayed both elite and popular medical and healing practices. Dott tracks the cultural
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