Gourmet China (1 x 60')
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The diverse offerings of Chinese cuisine have created one of the worlds most popular and inventive genres of gastronomic ideas.
Chinese cuisine has proved a successful export to the rest of the world's dinner tables; it's changed the way the modern world eats. And yet it has also played a hugely significant role as cultural 'anchor' to the notion of authentic 'Chinese-ness'.
Meet the power-hungry Concubine to whom Chinese mythology has attributed the origin of dimsum; the real-life archaeologist who helped to uncover early evidence of Cantonese cuisine in one of China’s greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century; and the old Shandong master chef who refused to teach his daughter the intricacies of his technique... because she was a woman. Enter the world of Chinese cuisine - Gourmet China - a universe which gourmets, chefs and connoisseurs alike can perhaps only describe as... heavenly.