China in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China's food history in seven iconic meals, from the ancient Eight Treasures fête to the 'Tail-Burning Banquet' of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing court's extravagant 'Complete Manchu-Han Feast'. We also experience lavish repasts from literature and film, a New Year's buffet from 1920s Shanghai and a delivery menu from the hyperglobal twenty-first century, even peeking into the tables of the not-too-distant future. Drawing on decades of experience eating his way around China, Beijing-based historian Thomas David DuBois explains why culinary fashions come and go, and recreates dozens of historical recipes in a modern kitchen. From fermented elk to absinthe cocktails, this is Chinese food as you've never seen it before.
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- English
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Culinary ArtsTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Note for My Fellow Historians, and for Everyone Else
- Introduction What Is Food History?
- 1 Of Meat and Morality The Eight Treasures of Zhou
- 2 By Silk Road and High Sea New Foods Come to China
- 3 Gardens of Delight Imperial China’s High Cuisine
- 4 Fancy Foods and Foreign Fads China Eats the World
- 5 ‘Life’s a Banquet’ Food Culture in the Go-Go ’90s
- 6 Franchise Fever The Price of Efficiency
- 7 And Beyond . . .
- List of Featured Recipes
- Weights and Measures
- Timeline of Major Dynasties
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
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