Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
Sinica Podcast
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The Chilli Pepper and the Class Dilemma
There is a class struggle when it comes to chilies in China. The more effete, refined scholarly types prefer the hinan vegetarian stuff. Rocker friends are always up for checking out the latest tin sigan restaurant and ordering spiciest possible dishes. There was a kind of ismo always to eating chilly, a kind of, you know, you call it, you link it to hyper masculinity in your book at one point.
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