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16 Nov 2016 Conversations with Tyler Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel
“There was an amazing series of cookery books produced around 1980, I think, when they photographed the classical dishes of four great cuisines of China.”
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- Fuchsia Dunlop
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- 16 Nov 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Very last question goes to me to close. What is your favorite Chinese film and why? Eat Drink Man Woman, so Taiwanese. It’s a lovely story about food, but what’s extraordinary is the actual food you see in that film. Actually, by chance, I’ve come across the set of books that was clearly the source for that. There was an amazing series of cookery books produced around 1980, I think, when they photographed the classical dishes of four great cuisines of China. They shot them beautifully in antique dishes. This is, for me, the absolute pinnacle of classical Chinese cuisine. The people who researched the food for that film have done their homework. It is just ravishing, historically accurate Chinese food. I thank the panel and most of all, Fuchsia. Thank you very much for a wonderful time and for the ordering. Thank you.…
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