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Fuchsia Dunlop

Food writer and cook specialising in Chinese cuisine; author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.

4 books on the record · 29 Nov 2017 – 29 Nov 2017

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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China to Chinatown by JAG Roberts

He has drawn together all kinds of different sources that would be a lot of work to find on your own.

on fivebooks.com · 29 Nov 2017

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Classic Food of China by Yan-Kit So

Classic Food of China was really her great work, though. I think it was the last book she produced before she died, some years ago. It's one of the few really well-researched historical and cultural Chinese cookery books.

on fivebooks.com · 29 Nov 2017

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Food in Chinese Culture by KC Chang

It was probably the first book in English to bring serious academic scrutiny to Chinese food culture, and to use the scholarly techniques applied to other subjects to food, offering the views of different experts on different periods of Chinese history.

on fivebooks.com · 29 Nov 2017

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The Food of China by EN Anderson

It offers a good counterpart to the KC Chang. It's very well researched and comprehensive, covering all aspects of Chinese cooking – ingredients, cooking techniques, history, agricultural system and so on.

on fivebooks.com · 29 Nov 2017

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.