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The author of this article Fuchsia Dunlop, has written a couple of fantastic cooking books that bring mainland chinese cuisine to a western audience. If you'r
by poutine 12y ago
The author of this article Fuchsia Dunlop, has written a couple of fantastic cooking books that bring mainland chinese cuisine to a western audience. If you're at all interested in preparing some fantastic authentic Chinese food I heartily recommend picking up "Every Grain of Rice", available on Amazon.
- contingencies 12y agoNew Yorkers: 5 star reviews Ethnic Chinese person: a very ordinary Chinese Cookbook trading on the talents and titles of earlier authors http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Y6HWI3APK3CD/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0393089045 http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Y6HWI3APK3CD/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt... My feeling after living in China for a decade and comparing her review with the photo evidence: similarly unimpressed. Her other books get comments like "Repetitive, disjointed and boastful", "trite anecdotes and sweeping cliches, all exclaimed wide-eyed and breathlessly", "The recipes are different from the traditional Chinese recipes", "Her excuses for eating fancy food and endangered species were bogus". The ones you can Look Inside! contain mentions of Mencius and Marco Polo, and describe 白酒 (baijiu; a critically important class of alcohols in Chinese banquet culture and cooking) as simply 'rice vodka'. Fail.