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13 Dec 2023 Conversations with Tyler Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food
“I think that the people writing about food are no longer the Confucian gentleman scholars.”
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- Fuchsia Dunlop
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- 13 Dec 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…The spicy ones are more popular right now. Spicy ones, yes. Guizhou is also, and that’s not elitist cuisine. I think that the people writing about food are no longer the Confucian gentleman scholars. [laughs] Why has Hunan food fallen behind in the West? You used to have so many restaurants that claimed to be Szechuan and Hunan. They weren’t really either one, but nominally, there was some connection. Now, many more people want real Chinese food. There’s plenty of more or less broadly authentic Szechuan places, but I don’t see broadly authentic Hunan places. What happened?…
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