Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper

出版者:Ebury Press

作者:Fuchsia Dunlop

页数:320

出版时间:2008-3-6

价格:GBP 16.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780091918309

具体描述

This is the story of an English girl who went to China to learn the language, but whose love of food lead her down a very different path...

Award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China in 1994, and from the very beginning vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed to her as a Westerner. In this extraordinary memoir, Fuchsia recalls her evolving relationship with China and its food, from her first rapturous encounter with the delicious cuisine of Sichuan Province, to brushes with corruption, environmental degradation and greed.

In the course of this fascinating journey, Fuchsia undergoes an apprenticeship at the Sichuan cooking school, where she is the only foreign student in a class of nearly fifty young Chinese men; she attempts, hilariously, to persuade Chinese people that Western food is neither simple nor bland ; and samples a multitude of exotic ingredients, including dogmeat, civet cats, scorpions, rabbit heads and the ovarian fat of the snow frog. But is it possible for a Westerner to become a true convert to the Chinese way of eating? In an encounter with a caterpillar in an Oxfordshire kitchen, Fuchsia is forced to put this to the test.

From the vibrant markets of Sichuan to the bleached landscape of northern Gansu Province, from the desert oases of Xinjiang to the enchanting old city of Yangzhou, this is a unique and evocative account of a culture and cuisine that is a world away from most Westerners experiences.

作者简介

Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to train as a chief at China's Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and she has been researching Chinese culinary culture for more than a decade. She is the author of two acclaimed cookery books, Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook and Sichuan Cookery, and was named 'Food Journalist of the Year' by the British Guild of Food Writers in 2006.

She currently lives in London.

目录信息

CONTENTS
Prologue: The Chinese Eat Everything 8
Mouths That Love Eating 15
Dan Dan Noodles! 34
First Kill Your Fish 47
Only Barbarians Eat Salad 60
The Cutting Edge 76
The Root of Tastes 93
The Hungry Dead 114
The Rubber Factor 133
Sickness Enters Through the Mouth 150
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party 173
Chanel and Chickens' Feet 185
Feeding the Emperor 199
Guilt and Pepper 217
Journey to the West 236
Of Paw and Bone 255
Scary Crabs 273
A Dream of Red Mansions 291
Epilogue:The Caterpillar 309
List of the Main Chinese Dynasties 313
Acknowledgements 314
Index 317
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