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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Posted By: arundhati
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food"
English | ISBN: 0393867137 | 2023 | 480 pages | EPUB | 22 MB

The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes.
Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world’s best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication―but today that is beginning to change.
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