Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China

Name: Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
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ISBN: 9780393066579

ISBN-10: 0393066576

ISBN-13: 9780393066579

Edition: 2008

Authors: Fuchsia Dunlop

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An examination of Chinese and Western attitudes toward food and each other. After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself at her parents' kitchen table in Oxford, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some home-grown vegetables. How, she wonders, can something she has eaten readily in China seem nearly unthinkable to eat in England? This question lingers over her memoir. What leads some Chinese people to enjoy the slither of shark's fin and ox's throat, which seem so alien to westerners? Do the Chinese really eat everything, and what does that tell us about their culture? What do our own culinary prejudices tell us…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



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


List of the Main Chinese Dynasties


Acknowledgements


Index