Slippery Noodles
a culinary history of china
$64.18
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2014
Summary
China is a big country and its cookery is one of the world’s greatest. In the last century all nations everywhere have been introduced to its tastes, flavours and cooking methods. But an understanding of Chinese food history is hard to come by: the country is large and the history is long. Hsiang Ju Lin has interrogated the written record, some of it dating back to the 5th century BC, and most recently from books current in the People’s Republic today; she has translated it and set it into cu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909248373 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1909248371 |
| Author: | Hsiang Ju Lin |
| Publisher: | Prospect Books |
| Imprint: | Prospect Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 576g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Hsiang Ju Lin
Hsiang Ju Lin is a biochemist and pathologist who formerly worked at the University of Hong Kong and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She is also the daughter of Lin Yutang, the twentieth century’s most celebrated interpreter of Chinese culture for Western audiences. With her mother, Tsuifeng Lin, she wrote Chinese Gastronomy (1955), which later appeared as The Art of Chinese Cuisine. This book was a pioneer in the subject area.
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