CLASSIFYING CUISINE
By Li Yingxue | China Daily | Updated: 2018-10-26 07:39
A new book looks to systematically categorize Chinese dishes across various dimensions to create a tabletop taxonomy, Li Yingxue reports.
Liu Guangwei views Chinese cuisine's thousands of dishes as pearls - and he hopes to systematically string them together to create a beautiful necklace.
The Beijing Easteat Research Institute's dean has wondered exactly how many dishes Chinese cuisine contains since he started learning how to cook in college in 1978.
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