Product Description: Award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China in 1994, and from the very beginning vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed to her as a Westerner. In this extraordinary memoir, Fuchsia recalls her evolving relationship with China and its food, from her first rapturous encounter with the delicious cuisine of Sichuan Province, to brushes with corruption, environmental degradation and greed...read more

Representing the finest in cuisine from the Hunan Province of China, a taste-tempting cookbook introduces a series of classic, traditional recipes--including Numbing-and-Hot Chicken, Chairman Mao's Red-Braised Pork, and a host of vegetable stir-fries--along with culinary history, lore, and anecdotes.

Sichuan food is one of the great unknown cuisines of the world, famous in Chinese history and legend for its extraordinary variety and richness. This book includes sections on the history of Sichuan cooking and culinary culture, presentation, nutrition, ingredients and methods.

A collection of traditional Sichuanese recipes, drawn from the author's two-year experience with regional chefs and complemented by detailed cooking methods, features a range of dishes and includes an ingredient glossary and a listing of twenty-three key Chinese flavors. 20,000 first printing.