Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food Sami Tamimi Kennan emerges as a cheerful

Kennan emerges as a cheerful

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Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food Sami Tamimi Kennan emerges as a cheerfulChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication