This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests have led them to questions relating to the food of China. Readers will find discussions regarding origins, how things came to be, time and place of food-plant and animal domestication, the spread of plants and animals from and to China, and other historical questions regarding the foods used by the Chinese people. The book is written with Canton and the southeast as points of departure, but embraces all of China and is directed towards people unfamiliar with China.
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This review is from: Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry (Telford Press S.) (Hardcover)
This is one of the few books that give actual hard information on the cuisine in China. Since it is not a cookbook, it does not intend to adapt local cookery to a more international audience, but rather documents the cultural and historical significance of larger elements of Chinese cuisine. It also is helpful in identifying the movements and migrations of products throughout Asia, which is quite helpful for serious scholars of Asian cuisines in general.
It's dense as a block of igneous rock, and certainly not for everyone, but definitely a good buy if you take the cuisine seriously. My only complaint aside from the density is that a good amount of the data is out of date, from the early teens to the late thirties, which misses the PRC's reign almost entirely. It feels like a snapshot in time before the cuisine was heavily damaged by cultural bleaching.
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fourth century flora, major regional cuisines, minor dietary importance, pigeon flutes, arenga palm, seaweed consumption, adult lactose malabsorption, perennial crop breeding, total crop area, true cardamom, fig cultivation, raw edible portion, court dish, raisin tree, pickled tea, cat flesh, common millet, fermented fish products, minor pulses, earliest cultivation, edible aroids, rice area, fish cultivation, thiamine intake, village survey Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southeast Asia, South China, North China, Hong Kong, United States, Near East, People's Republic, Chi Han, Old World, Double Cropping Rice Area, New World, Central Asia, Han Chinese, Rice Region, San Francisco, Wheat Region, New Guinea, T'ang China, North America, New Zealand, South Chinese, North Chinese, Kitchen God, American Plant Studies Delegation, West Africa New!
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fourth century flora, major regional cuisines, minor dietary importance, pigeon flutes, arenga palm, seaweed consumption, adult lactose malabsorption, perennial crop breeding, total crop area, true cardamom, fig cultivation, raw edible portion, court dish, raisin tree, pickled tea, cat flesh, common millet, fermented fish products, minor pulses, earliest cultivation, edible aroids, rice area, fish cultivation, thiamine intake, village survey Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southeast Asia, South China, North China, Hong Kong, United States, Near East, People's Republic, Chi Han, Old World, Double Cropping Rice Area, New World, Central Asia, Han Chinese, Rice Region, San Francisco, Wheat Region, New Guinea, T'ang China, North America, New Zealand, South Chinese, North Chinese, Kitchen God, American Plant Studies Delegation, West Africa New!
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