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Top Chinese Cuisine Books

recommended by Stephen Jack, Food Writer

Some of the books that were influential on my research for my own book on Chinese cuisine, The Devil’s Chow: A Chinese Food History.

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    Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
    by K.C. (ed.) CHANG

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    Slippery Noodles
    by Hsiang Ju Lin

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    All the Tea in China
    by Kit Chow & Ione Kramer

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    Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
    by Fuchsia Dunlop & Bee Wilson

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    Fortune Cookie Chronicles
    by Jennifer 8. Lee

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