Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food
Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary…
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Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food
Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake.
In each chapter, she examines a classic dish, from mapo tofu to Dongpo pork, knife-scraped noodles to braised pomelo pith, to reveal a distinctive aspect of Chinese gastronomy, whether it's the importance of the soybean, the lure of For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners 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 history, philosophy, and techniques of Chinese culinary culture.
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