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Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper : a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China
- Title
- Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper : a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China / Fuchsia Dunlop.
- Author
- Dunlop, Fuchsia.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- 320 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- While a student living in China in 1994, Dunlop vowed to eat everything she was offered no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed. But is it possible for a Westener to become a true convert to the Chinese way of eating?
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: London : Ebury, 2008.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: the Chinese eat everything -- Mouths that love eating -- Dan dan noodles! -- First kill your fish -- Only barbarians eat salad -- The cutting edge -- The root of tastes -- The hungry dead -- The rubber factor -- Sickness enters through the mouth -- Revolution is not a dinner party -- Chanel and chickens' feet -- Feeding the Emperor -- Guilt and pepper -- Journey to the West -- Of paw and bone -- Scary crabs -- A dream of red mansions -- Epilogue: the caterpillar.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-6932
- ISBN
- 9780393066579 (hardcover)
- 0393066576 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2007050283
- OCLC
- 183392741
- Author
- Dunlop, Fuchsia.
- Title
- Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper : a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China / Fuchsia Dunlop.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-6932