Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine by A. Zee

Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine

A. Zee

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nonfiction food and drink history
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Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne Tyler (in the Washington Post) called Swallowing Cl...

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