Fuchsia Dunlop

Fuchsia Dunlop is an English writer and cook who specialises in Chinese cuisine.

Fuchsia Dunlop

Quotes

• 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.
  • Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, 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.
  • Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, Particular Books, 2023, chapter "The bold and the bland", page 237 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).