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Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
by: Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59515
EAN: 9781579653019
ISBN: 1579653014
Label: Artisan
Manufacturer: Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Artisan
Sales Rank: 14544
Studio: Artisan

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A bold and eye-opening new cookbook with magnificent photos and unforgettable stories.

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. In Beyond the Great Wall, the inimitable duo of Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid—who first met as young travelers in Tibet—bring home the enticing flavors of this other China.

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—photos, and stories. A must-have for every food lover, and an inspiration for cooks and armchair travelers alike.

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- wonderful book
People should put aside any political thoughts about this book. It is a beautiful book and travelogue by the authors who have extensively travelled in the area and write the text portions based on their own experiences. I found no strong hints of any political agenda. What I found instead was an extremely interesting commentary on the wildly varied peoples of China - from all regions lesser known - including Tibetans. The photographs are stunning, showing the beauty of these people. The recipes are simple and easily followed even for those of us who don't always have access to exotic ingredients (alternatives are given). The book makes me want to visit these areas, meet these people and eat the food. What can be bad about that?

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- The Other Chinese
A coffee table book glimpse into multi-ethnic China and its varied cuisines little known in the West. It is rich with travel monologues, wonderful photography and authentic recipes.

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- The other side of the politics
I have the book it is gorgeous and recipes are very interesting - different that anything else I have in my 300+ cookbook collection

I have been having a debate with a Chinese American friend - which is relevant here:

Tibetan and other minorities are resentful of Han Chinese success. The Chinese are good business people and have been doing business all over Asia for centuries. I attribute this to cultural traits shared with other North Asians - Koreans and Japanese, and not by South Asians for the most part. As a result there has been resentment. The Filipinos did not like the Chinese because they dominated business. They also kept (or were kept) to themselves. In other areas like Indonesia and Vietnam there are many more Chinese - and that led to massacres in Indonesia and boat people - mostly ethnic Chinese - in Vietnam.

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- Great Wall ,Great Recipes
Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China Another wonderful book from these authors. One I will turn to again and again. The instructions are clear and the results so far have been sooooo good!

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