The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' –Sunday Telegraph, Jonathan Clements
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The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' –Sunday Telegraph

Author: Jonathan Clements

Narrator: Jonathan Clements

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 02/11/2021

Genre: History - Asia - China

Synopsis

The journey of Chinese food over 5,000 years of history - and the story it tells us about the land and its people.From the humble takeaway in the middle of a tiny English village to the embarrassment of riches offered in a big-city Chinatown, Chinese food is everywhere to be found. But the meals on offer merely scratch the surface of a rich and dizzyingly varied culinary tradition, spread across 5,000 years of history and over the more than thirty provinces and regions that constitute modern China - not to mention the Chinese diaspora communities all across the world.In The Emperor's Feast, author and TV presenter Dr Jonathan Clements invites us into the history of Chinese food, starting with the earliest grain stews and the rudimentary chopsticks of the Bronze Age and taking us through the development of dining etiquette under Confucius, the popularisation of rice and the dawn of the dumpling in the 4th century. We see how Chinese cuisine morphed and adapted to the eating habits of invaders such as the Mongols and the Manchus, and how food - like the heady, fiery cuisine of Sichuan or the hardy wheat-based dishes of the north - often became a stand-in for Chinese regional and national identities. Dr Clements then traces the journey of Chinese food to our modern Chinatowns and takeaways, from the tumultuous early days of the 19th century to the profound impact of the rapid industrialisation and globalisation of post-Mao China on the national diet. As we enter the 21st century with food scandals and a Guinness World Record attempt involving fried rice, The Emperor's Feast shows us that the story of Chinese food is inextricably entwined with the story of China: not only the one that history tells us, but also the one that China tells about itself.(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

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