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The Cooking of China (Foods of the World)
The Cooking of China - Foods of the World Author:Emily Hahn & the Editors of Time-Life Books Chapter 1 - An Ancient & Honorable Art — "After a reign of some 2,500 years, the powerful influence of Confucius on Chinese ways of life is certainly on the wane. Even in pre-Mao days, before World War II, when I taught school in Shanghai, Chinese youths resented him almost as violently as they do today, They hated his preaching, his insistence... more » on the value of old age. At that time nobody had yet quarreled with his attitude toward food. On that point, they agreed with the Master that a man cannot be too serious about his eating. I was left in no doubt about this after my first meal in a Shanghai restaurant, to which I was taken as the guest of some Chinese friends. ... "« less