China Through Its Menus: Chinese Cuisine, Culinary Culture and Food Traditions - Françoise Sabban

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Following the actions and gestures of great chefs, it invites us to understand the subtlety of flavors, the habits of diners, the rituals of the table and their history. It reconciles practices with the imagination, thoughts and ideas that give them meaning.

Despite the proliferation of Asian food options beyond the Great Wall, few Western diners imagine the refinement and richness of the flavor palette showcased by the cuisines of the vast Chinese landscape. For in China, food culture has always been a political matter. By recounting China through its cuisine, Françoise Sabban traces the ideological upheavals that have transformed society since the early 1980s and how, for the Chinese, the conquest of modernity involved a reform of their diet.