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Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper : a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China / Fuchsia Dunlop.
Van Pelt Library TX724.5.C5 D868 2008
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LIBRA TX724.5.C5 D868 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunlop, Fuchsia.
- Cooking, Chinese.
- Food habits--China.
- Food habits.
- Travel.
- China.
- Dunlop, Fuchsia--Travel--China.
- China--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Chinese Eat Everything 8
- 1 Mouths That Love Eating 15
- 2 Dan Dan Noodles! 34
- 3 First Kill Your Fish 47
- 4 Only Barbarians Eat Salad 60
- 5 The Cutting Edge 76
- 6 The Root of Tastes 93
- 7 The Hungry Dead 114
- 8 The Rubber Factor 133
- 9 Sickness Enters Through the Mouth 150
- 10 Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party 173
- 11 Chanel and Chickens' Feet 185
- 12 Feeding the Emperor 199
- 13 Guilt and Pepper 217
- 14 Journey to the West 236
- 15 Of Paw and Bone 255
- 16 Scary Crabs 273
- 17 A Dream of Red Mansions 291
- Epilogue: The Caterpillar 309.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Ebury, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393066579
- 0393066576
- OCLC:
- 183392741
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