Chinese food culture
This is a selection of resources on China’s culture and cuisine available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
Chinese street food: Small bites, classic recipes, and harrowing tales across the Middle Kingdom
Filled with Chinese street food recipes, histories and food lore, and narrated in an entertaining manner, experience China’s incredible food culture through this ebook today. Be fascinated by the beautiful culinary photos taken across China, from the spicy streets of Sichuan to the frozen tundra of Harbin.
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All rights reserved, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018
Every grain of rice: Simple Chinese home cooking
Inspired by the healthy and vibrant home cooking of southern China which uses vegetable as the centrepiece, this is a comprehensive title featuring key seasoning varieties and Chinese cooking techniques, accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions and mouth-watering photos.
All rights reserved, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
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Winner of several cookbook awards in 2019, this volume is an essential guide to the flavours and textures of Sichuanese cooking. Recipes on how to replicate classic Sichuan dishes at home are paired with stunning food and travel photography and served up with a culinary and cultural history of the region.
All rights reserved, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019
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Drunk in China: Baijiu and the world’s oldest drinking culture
China is one of the world’s leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Drunk in China examines the many ways in which alcohol has shaped Chinese society and its rituals and how recent economic and political developments have pushed Chinese alcohol beyond the nation’s borders to the international stage.
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Bitter and sweet: Food, meaning, and modernity in rural China
Can food tell us more about our society? Ethnographic accounts in this book examine one rural community through the lens of food, exploring how the relationships different generations had with their food and agriculture. Reveal a more complex picture, where connectedness and sense of place continue to play an important role, even in the context of rapid and constant change.
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Food culture in China: From social political perspectives
The Chinese food culture is sophisticated and influenced by the social-political traditions in China. This journal article is an in-depth analysis of how Chinese food culture and eating behaviours have evolved out of the social and political necessities in the long history of China.
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Will COVID-19 finally change China’s communal eating culture?
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Chinese food culture – Understand your behavior when eating in China
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China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger
Fake meats made up of varying combinations of soybeans, peanuts, mushrooms, nuts and vegetables have been part of China’s cuisine long before ‘Impossible Foods’ and ‘Beyond Meat’ became popular in the West for people seeking healthier alternatives to meat. China’s tradition of fake meat products is linked to its long history of Buddhism. Read this article to find out more!
Chopstick revolution: How COVID-19 might change China’s eating habits
From this article, read about how people in China are thinking twice about the traditional practice of using chopsticks for communal food sharing for fear of spreading COVID-19. Governments are pushing for the use of serving chopsticks but this has met with resistance with locals for the fear of offending fellow diners.
Last updated on Oct 2020