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Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper, a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China, Fuchsia Dunlop

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Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper, a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China, Fuchsia Dunlop

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-[317]) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper

Medium

electronic resource eBook

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Responsibility statement

Fuchsia Dunlop

Sub title

a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China

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 Westerner to become a true convert to the Chinese way of eating?

Table Of 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

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