What The Reviewers Say

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Based on 9 reviews

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Fuchsia Dunlop

What The Reviewers Say

Rave

Based on 9 reviews

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Fuchsia Dunlop

Rave
Dwight Garner,
The New York Times
Masterly.
Rave
Eugenia Bone,
The Wall Street Journal
Offers food tours to help people like me develop a deeper appreciation of the varieties of Chinese cuisine.
Rave
Mei Chin,
Irish Times (IRE)
An ecstatic compendium of her Chinese romance. Chapters are divided into banquet 'courses'.
Rave
Andrew Irwin,
Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Fascinating.
Rave
Bee Wilson,
The Sunday Times (UK)
As a whole, however, this book is an erudite joy that makes you yearn to taste the delights Dunlop describes. Her sensory writing is so vivid that I felt I was actually there with her in the food markets of China..
Rave
Isabel Hamilton,
Financial Times (UK)
[A] love letter.
Rave
Kristen Yee,
Asian Review of Books
Dunlop is an astute and enthusiastic observer, with a fine sense of the intercultural differences and the thread of ignorance and animus that has persisted.
Mixed
Vincent Chow,
Los Angeles Review of Books
Dunlop’s book, polemical in parts, is a robust defense of Chinese food mounted by one of its leading authorities in the West.
Positive
Kirkus
Dunlop delves into a complex, subtle cuisine with an insider’s expertise..