Bee Wilson
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The secret of better home cooking is not the gadgets, chefs' tricks, or hidden ingredients. The secret is the person who cooks, the human standing at the stove bringing the words of the recipe to life. You carry into the kitchen your own particular tastes and values, passions and blind spots, and motivations for cooking-- or cutting corners. Wilson shows you how to make cooking less of a drag and more of a joy. All you need to start is a clean kitchen,...
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Award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China in 1994, and from the very beginning vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed to her as a Westerner. In this extraordinary memoir, Fuchsia recalls her evolving relationship with China and its food, from her first rapturous encounter with the delicious cuisine of Sichuan Province, to brushes with corruption, environmental degradation and greed.In...