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Invitation to a banquet: the story of Chinese food
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First American edition.
Prologue. A kind of Chinese food : sweet-and-sour pork balls
Hearth: the origins of Chinese food. Naked flame : cha siu pork
Sacred grain: steamed rice
The harmonious geng : Mrs Song's fish stew
The nourishment of life : bitter melon and pork rib soup
Farm : choosing ingredients. Farm to chopsticks : Anji bamboo shoots with Jinhua ham
The joy of vegetables : stir-fried Chinese broccoli with ginger
Farming the water : sliced perch and water shield soup
The miraculous bean : mapo tofu
The whole pig : Dongpo pork
Food without borders : rinsed mutton hotpot
The marvels of qu : drunken crabs
What is an ingredient? Braised pomelo pith with shrimp eggs
Tongue and teeth : "catfish basking in honours"
The lure of the exotic : "surpassing bear's paw"
Kitchen : Culinary techniques. Tasting the invisible : "top-ranking pot"
The bold and the bland : sweet-and-sour Yellow River carp
The subtle knife : shunde raw sliced fish
The power of steam : steamed reeves shad
Fire and time : stir-fried "jade" shrimps
A vocabulary of methods : Shandong guota tofu
Transforming dough : knife-scraped noodles
Kindling the spirits : steamed "soup" dumplings
Table : food and ideas. There is no dessert : Chaozhou "mother duck" twists
The impossible map : Chongqing chicken in a pile of chillies
Food without a meal : dry-fired "eels"
Rural idylls : stir-fried sweet potato leaves
Cultural appropriation, Chinese-style : "Russian soup"
Food and the heart : loving mother's red-braised pork
Epilogue. Past and future : chop suey.