Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (Paperback) by Fuchsia Dunlop

from jontseng

An informed east meets west food memoir, which avoids the mawkish rubbernecking (e.g. WOW! THEY EAT SNAKES HERE!!) which normally blights the genre.

from gayla.bassham

One of the few foodie memoirs I've read that didn't make me want the food at all. An interesting light read, though.

from debnance

Fuchsia lived in China off and on for about ten years. She entered China as a journalist and left intrigued with its cuisine. And what a cuisine? Is there anything they don't eat in China? I honestly cannot imagine getting all googly-eyed over snapping off and crunching on rabbit heads. Ick. And ...

from cajela

Fabulous foodie reading. This is a memoir of Fuschia Dunlop's life in China. She starts as a curious English girl on a study program, fascinated by some of the food she encounters in Chengdu. She talks her way in to training as a Sichuan chef, and goes on to revisit the country many times and wri...

from cajela

Fabulous foodie reading. This is a memoir of Fuschia Dunlop's life in China. She starts as a curious English girl on a study program, fascinated by some of the food she encounters in Chengdu. She talks her way in to training as a Sichuan chef, and goes on to revisit the country many times and wri...