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China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History
Author: Thomas David DuBois
Year: June 12, 2024
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 11 MB
Language: English

China in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China's food history in seven iconic meals, from the ancient Eight Treasures fete to the 'Tail-Burning Banquet' of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing court's extravagant 'Complete Manchu-Han Feast'. We also experience lavish repasts from literature and film, a New Year's buffet from 1920s Shanghai and a delivery menu from the hyperglobal twenty-first century, even peeking into the tables of the not-too-distant future. Drawing on decades of experience eating his way around China, Beijing-based historian Thomas David DuBois explains why culinary fashions come and go, and recreates dozens of historical recipes in a modern kitchen. From fermented elk to absinthe cocktails, this is Chinese food as you've never seen it before.

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