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Dumplings : a global history
From gnocchi to pierogi to wontons, the dumpling has become synonymous with comfort food around the world. Whether stuffed or unfilled, steamed or boiled, many countries have their own version of the dish. In this book, Barbara Gallani looks at the differences and similarities between the ways dumplings are prepared in a variety of cultures, addressing the contrast between the dumpling as an everyday meal and as a food for festive occasions. First examining the etymology of the word and examining just what makes a dumpling a dumpling, Gallani moves on to recount the many ways we have come to love this simple comfort food.
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More than 'something wrapped in dough'
Charts the progress over time of Chinese food in New Zealand particularly dumplings, from dishes that were not really Chinese to authentic regional Chinese specialities. Discusses how an increase in the Chinese population has enabled this. Describes some of the different types of dumplings and explains how to eat soup dumplings. Comments on the development of Asian fusion. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Foods from the West
In the unsettled period after the fall of Han, Chinese successor states fought each other to exhaustion, and “barbarians” conquered northern China. Starting in or before 311 CE, Central Asian states began serious conquests in China, sacking cities and later taking over all the north. The Xianbei, a group living under Xiongnu rule, emerged to acquire much of its territory when the Xiongnu state fell. Like other Central Asian empires, they ruled a clearly multicultural population. Many splinter groups went on to conquer various pieces of China and Central Asia. Victor Mair has sorted this out in a tour-de-force essay
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Correcting the Czech(oslovakian) Error: The Cooperation of Hungarian and Czechoslovakian Artists in the Face of the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The crucial notion organizing the memory of 1968 in Czechoslovakia of the outstanding writer Milan Kundera was the declaration of love received by him from the officer of the occupying forces on the third day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. \"They all spoke more or less as he did, their attitude based not on the sadistic pleasure of the ravisher but on quite a different archetype: unrequited love. Why do these Czechs (whom we love so!) refuse to live with us the way we live? What a pity we're forced to use tanks to teach them what it means to love!\"
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The lesson received by Czechs and Slovaks along with all the countries of the Eastern Bloc was not exclusively of a historical, but also of a linguistic nature. Sixteen years later, on the pages of his philosophical account of the communist past, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera answered: \"love means renouncing strength.\"
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The Origins of the Humor of the Old South
The emergence of the Old South's humor remains a puzzle that will never be completely explained. A study focuses on a hitherto unknown author who adds to the understanding of the US background of ante-bellum Southern humor, William Henry Timrod.
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