China in Seven Banquets
A Flavourful History
Seiten
2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-861-9 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-861-9 (ISBN)
A unique perspective on Chinese food history through seven iconic meals.
China in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China’s food history in seven iconic meals, from the opulent 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 hyper-global twenty-first century, and even peek at the tables of the not-so-distant future. Drawing upon decades of experience eating his way around China, Beijing-based historian Thomas David DuBois explains why culinary fashions come and go, as well as 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.
China in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China’s food history in seven iconic meals, from the opulent 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 hyper-global twenty-first century, and even peek at the tables of the not-so-distant future. Drawing upon decades of experience eating his way around China, Beijing-based historian Thomas David DuBois explains why culinary fashions come and go, as well as 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.
Thomas David DuBois is professor in the Folk Culture Research Center of Beijing Normal University. He is the author of numerous books on China's history and religion.
A Note for My Fellow Historians, and for Everyone Else
Introduction: What Is Food History?
Of Meat and Morality: The Eight Treasures of Zhou
By Silk Road and High Sea: New Foods Come to China
Gardens of Delight: Imperial China’s High Cuisine
Fancy Foods and Foreign Fads
‘Life’s a Banquet’: Food Culture in the Go-Go ’90s
Franchise Fever: The Price of Efficiency
And Beyond . . .
List of Featured Recipes
Weights and Measures
Timeline of Major Dynasties
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 40 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-861-8 / 1789148618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-861-9 / 9781789148619 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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