A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China
Fuchsia Dunlop
résumé
After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some home-grown vegetables. How can something she has eaten readily in China seem grotesque in England? The question lingers over this "autobiographical food-and-travel classic" (Publishers Weekly).
contents
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
