Swallowing clouds / A. Zee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zee, A.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Social life and customs.

China.

China--Anecdotes.

Food habits--China.

Food habits.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) -- c.1:

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], 378, [4] pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Contents:

1. Beijing men built a fire

2. Slicing through water

Interlude 1: Phonetics, or why some characters look horribly complicated

3. Sleep of the truly inebriated

4. Swallowing clouds

5. Chinese pigs stand

Interlude 2: The appalling ignorance of some scribes

6. A delicacy for aging men

7. No contest between fish and a bear with eight legs

8. Courtesans do not eat crabs

Interlude 3: To all you carnivores

9. The sweet fragrance of crops ripening

10. How to avoid being vulgar

11. The pockmarked woman and the pearly empress

Interlude 4: Words are like our children

12. Buddha jumping over walls

13. Act without acting, taste without tasting

Interlude 5: Like eating potato chips

14. The sublime faith in illusions

15. Pieces of her heart

16. Elixirs and the food of health

17. From banquets to voyages of discovery

Epilogue: All banquets must come to an end.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Kislak copy has yellow post-it "Contained correspondence (a page of vocab.) Removed to Chef Fritz Ephemera Collection Box 4".

Other Format:

Online version: Zee, A. Swallowing clouds.

ISBN:

0671646656 (cloth) :

9780671646653

9780671747244

067174724X

OCLC:

21594320