A SweetSour Memoir of Eating in China (First edition)
by Fuchsia Dunlop
appears in Food, Hobbies, and Food.
?Destined, I think, to become a classic of travel writing.??Paul Levy, The Observer After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some homegrown vegetables. How can something she has eaten readily in China seem grotesq...
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