{"product_id":"invitation-to-a-banquet","title":"Invitation to a Banquet","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2024 IACP Award for Literary or Historical Food Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn NPR 2023 \"Books We Love\" Pick • A Food \u0026amp; Wine Best Food Book of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world’s best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication―but today that is beginning to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Invitation to a Banquet, award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the history, philosophy, and techniques of Chinese culinary culture. In each chapter, she examines a classic dish, from mapo tofu to Dongpo pork, knife-scraped noodles to braised pomelo pith, to reveal a distinctive aspect of Chinese gastronomy, whether it’s the importance of the soybean, the lure of exotic ingredients, or the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Meeting food producers, chefs, gourmets, and home cooks as she tastes her way across the country, Fuchsia invites readers to join her on an unforgettable journey into Chinese food as it is cooked, eaten, and considered in its homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46424855838877,"sku":"9781324105190","price":124.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9781324105190.jpg?v=1741679107","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/invitation-to-a-banquet","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}