Beyond the Great Wall
Subtitle: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
Publisher: Artisan
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781579653019
Subjects: National & regional cuisine; Cooking; Cooking / Wine; ASIA; China; Asia - China; Regional & Ethnic - Asian; Regional & Ethnic - Chinese; Cooking / Asian; TRAVEL / Asia / China; Health & Healing - General; Cookery, Chinese; Cookery, Tibetan; Description and travel; Silk Road; Yunnan style
Description: In the West, when we think about food in China, what usually comes to mind are the signature dishes of Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai. But beyond the urbanized eastern third of China lie the high open spaces and sacred places of Tibet, the Silk Road oases of Xinjiang, the steppelands of Inner Mongolia, and the steeply terraced hills of Yunnan and Guizhou. The peoples who live in these regions are culturally distinct, with their own history and their own unique culinary traditions. For more than twenty-five years, both separately and together, Duguid and Alford have journeyed all over the outlying regions of China, sampling local home cooking and street food, making friends and taking lustrous photographs. Beyond the Great Wall shares the experience in a rich mosaic of recipes - from Central Asian cumin-scented kebabs and flatbreads to Tibetan stews and Mongolian hot pots.