The Chile Pepper in China : : A Cultural Biography /

The Chile Pepper in China : : A Cultural Biography / / Brian R. Dott.

Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-cent...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Dott, Brian R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 b&w illustrations, 5 maps, color insert
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHINESE DYNASTIES AND REGIMES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. NAMES AND PLACES
  • 2. SPICING UP THE PALATE
  • 3. SPICING UP THE PHARMACOPEIA
  • 4. TOO HOT FOR WORDS
  • 5. CHILES AS BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS AND LITERARY EMBLEMS
  • 6. MAO’S LITTLE RED SPICE
  • APPENDIX A. LATE IMPERIAL RECIPE COLLECTIONS
  • APPENDIX B. MEDICAL TEXTS CONSULTED
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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