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Scream it from the Rooftops
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, by Fuchsia Dunlop, due out in mid-April.
She is one of the writers I revere most. And yes, I know she is usually a cookbook writer, but I do mean her writing, not just her recipes. The more general point is you should expect to see many of the best writers, today, in new media and genres, not in the old. I saw notice of this, by the way, in the vastly superior to almost anything else London Review of Books.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 22, 2008 at 12:38 PM in Books, Food and Drink | Permalink
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the amazon link for Dunlop's cookbooks is messed up.
Looks like an interesting book indeed, "Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China as a student in 1994, and from the very beginning she vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed." In China, that could be some scary stuff.
http://chinesefood.about.com/cs/foodculture/a/unusualfood.htm
Posted by: lt.milo at Mar 22, 2008 2:16:43 PM
You say "mid-April", but Amazon says "in stock"...which is strange, because the publishing date they give is April 14th. Anybody have success in ordering a copy?
Posted by: Sean at Mar 22, 2008 2:50:08 PM
Well I certainly hope this book does not do much to increase the demand for shark-fin soup, given the ecological threat that shark fishing and finning has become.
Posted by: Diego at Mar 22, 2008 3:57:42 PM
TC: "the vastly superior to almost anything else London Review of Books"
I don't like it much. It's not better than the New York Review, Nature, or even Crooked Timber for general interest smart reading, says me.
Posted by: Lee at Mar 22, 2008 7:17:09 PM
I'm sure it's a good book, but does it really deserve "scream from the rooftops" billing? I thought that was a rather more exclusive MR category.
Posted by: Glen at Mar 22, 2008 10:28:01 PM
Sean, I'm pretty sure one of my friends got this in a package from Amazon on Monday. I'd never heard of the author, but the name caught my interest.
Posted by: Sol at Mar 22, 2008 10:41:15 PM
