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CELESTIAL AND AMBROSIAL
PRESS, VOLUME XCIV, ISSUE 28134, 24 NOVEMBER 1956,
CELESTIAL AND AMBROSIAL
[Reviewed by G.C.A.W.] How To Cook and Eat in Chinese. By Buwei Yang Chao. Faber and Faber. Christchurch has only two modest Chinese restaurants <to my knowledge) whereas our friends in Auckland and Wellington have a far richer choice. The implications of this doleful situation, and speculation on its causes, may be a pleasingly fruitful field for students of provincial idiosyncrasies. To the Christchurch gourmet, with happy memories of Maxim and Lay On gilding his palate, it approaches tragedy. It is surely no accident that the celestial Empire feasted on food Ambrosial: that a nation rich in artists and philosophers should regard as beautiful and serious what vulgar Westerners contemptuously call bellytimber. But that the Chinese way with food has earned international respect is proved by its long popularity in such otherwise unenlightened countries as pre-war Australia and the United States. (You may draw your own conclusions on enlightenment in Christchurch in the light of our opening sentence.)
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PRESS, VOLUME XCIV, ISSUE 28134, 24 NOVEMBER 1956,
CELESTIAL AND AMBROSIAL
[Reviewed by G.C.A.W.] How To Cook and Eat in Chinese. By Buwei Yang Chao. Faber and Faber. Christchurch has only two modest Chinese restaurants <to my knowledge) whereas our friends in Auckland and Wellington have a far richer choice. The implications of this doleful situation, and speculation on its causes, may be a pleasingly fruitful field for students of provincial idiosyncrasies. To the Christchurch gourmet, with happy memories of Maxim and Lay On gilding his palate, it approaches tragedy. It is surely no accident that the celestial Empire feasted on food Ambrosial: that a nation rich in artists and philosophers should regard as beautiful and serious what vulgar Westerners contemptuously call bellytimber. But that the Chinese way with food has earned international respect is proved by its long popularity in such otherwise unenlightened countries as pre-war Australia and the United States. (You may draw your own conclusions on enlightenment in Christchurch in the light of our opening sentence.)
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19561124.2.24.5?items_per_page=10&page=7&query=chinese+food&snippet=true