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Sheer magic - impossible to put down! - Rated
I loved reading this book so much that I found myself avoiding colleagues on the train in the morning just so I could keep reading. And then continuing to read in every snatched moment during the week. And when can you last remember feeling that way about a non-fiction book? Fuchsia Dunlop's book is a thoughtful and informed evocation of a nation's relationship with its food. It is also an absorbing but never self-indulgent journey through Fuchsia's own relationship with China and its people. It is written in unassuming, delicious, elegant prose and manages to also be, occasionally, laugh-out loud funny. Genuinely marvellous!
A wonderful insight into eating in China - Rated
This is not just a Chinese cookery book - though it does include several recipes. Nor is it just another Chinese travel book - though it does provide an excellent insight into Szechuan (Sichuan) and other Chinese regions; nor is it simply an autobiographical account of living and eating in China. It is all of these things and more.
In "Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper" Fuchsia Dunlop provides a factual but fascinating and entertaining insight into experiences that most of us lack the linguistic and culinary skills and courage to contemplate undertaking first-hand - for example as the only non-Chinese person and almost the only woman on a Sichuan cookery course.
Fuchsia Dunlop writes beautiful prose. Her style of writing, skill with words, content and structure, combined with her enthusiasm for Chinese cookery, create that rare commodity, an un-put-downable non-fiction work. She writes in a compelling way, enabling the reader to see the people and places she visits and taste the dishes she describes.
No one who has read the book could accuse the author of eating anything and everything without a qualm. She absorbs herself in and embraces the regional language, culture and cuisine of different parts of China and describes these sympathetically but not uncritically. She looks at her own eating behaviour dispassionately but critically, seeing herself through both Chinese and Western eyes.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever eaten a meal with Chinese people or who is planning a visit to China.
A new way to see China. - Rated
I thought this would just be about Chinese food. Even if it was it would have been fascinating - as it was it was like reading a thoughtful travel book infused with superior food writing. The reviewer who knocks it for being unethical cannot have read it - it raises so many difficult questions that the author's journalistic as well as foodie background shines through. Recommended, and I thought the end was the cutest I've read for a long time.
A delight - Rated
A fabulous book - I loved every single page and wished I'd been there trying the food. It's obvious what this book is about - if you don't like this kind of thing don't buy it or read it. Stick to battery chicken and lentils.
Disgusting - Rated
In this day and age, how could a publishing house think that such a book would be of interest to anyone? It is an outrage that a book gets published which endorses the consumption of rabbit heads, cats and other such horrors. Yes, China is a country of diversity but we all need to consider our role and contribution towards helping our planet. Fuchsia Dunlop's time would have been far more valuably spent exploring how we farm and what we should eat as a nation and planet to eliminate barbaric animal cruelty and to contribute to a better world for the future.
