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Fuchsia Dunlop
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“Planning a good menu demands experience, a certain amount of knowledge and a good deal of thought. I'm only half-joking when I say that learning how to order well in Chinese restaurants is one of my life's proudest achievements.”
Fuchsia Dunlop (born 1950) first seen 1698 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Particular Books, 2023, chapter "The bold and the bland", page 233 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).
“But the fact remains that you can't fully appreciate Chinese gastronomy without sharing in the pleasures of the quite, the plain, the qingdan as well as the sweet and sour and spicy. Plain dishes are like the empty space that frames and highlights a work of art, They are the necessary corrective to the wild excitements of flavour, restoring physical balance and mental equanimity.”
Fuchsia Dunlop (born 1950) first seen 1698 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Particular Books, 2023, chapter "The bold and the bland", page 237 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).
“Like many Chinese people, particularly those of the older generation, she didn't show her love for me by hugging or soliciting emotional outpourings, but through food and fussing.”
Fuchsia Dunlop (born 1950) first seen 1698 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Particular Books, 2023, chapter "Food and the heart", page 367 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).