Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Paperback/Fuchsia Dunlop

Subtitled, }A Sweet-Sour Memoir Of Eating In China{. Award-winning food writer Dunlop charts how she went to live in China in 1994, and resolved to eat everything she was offered. In the course of her journey, she undergoes an apprenticeship as a Sichuanese chef and attempts to persuade Chinese people that Western food is neither simple nor bland.