What comes to mind when you think of Chinese food? Is it takeout, thick sauces or deep-fried meat? Cookbook author Fuchsia Dunlop wants to change that. "Really, the traditional diet is all about ...

Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to study cooking at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, back in... Culinary Memoir Shares Spice of Sichuanese Cuisine ...

Most cookbooks, at heart, are designed for home cooking. The chasm, though, between a cookbook from a restaurant chef that has been adapted for home use and a book that exploits the spirit, ...

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food; By Fuchsia Dunlop; W. W. Norton & Company; 468 pp., $32.50 There are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than there are locations of ...

On Dec. 9, 2021, Sixth Tone invited food writer Fuchsia Dunlop and nonfiction author Qian Jianan to take part in a wide-ranging conversation on food, family, and “generations.” The following is an ...

Eight years ago, cookbook author Fuchsia Dunlop visited the celebrated Dragon Well Manor restaurant on a farm on the outskirts of Hangzhou, an ancient capital of China whose culinary traditions date ...

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