Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper
A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
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Average rating3.8
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A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Ratings5
Average rating3.8
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Great read as a travel book and a delicious read as a cookbook. I would be driven insane if I had to read this anywhere further than 10 kilometres from a decent Asian market.
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 bladders? Eek. Dunlop's final confrontation is with a caterpillar crawling on a leaf in her garden at home in England. I hope I'm not giving anything away when I tell you that she plucked the caterpillar off the leaf and popped it in her mouth and regarded the entire affair as a triumph of her new eating sensibilities. Sorry, but I must comment with a final yuck.
