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Dim sum aficionados, awake! Lots of delicious news out there, so let's get started:
Gwenyth
Paltrow’s beautiful weekly lifestyle magazine, goop, just published a dim sum
article that features me as your hostess into this delicious world.
The fine folks at goop also
offer some lo-cal recipes for homemade dim sum, and they definitely look good enough to
eat.
You
will find guides in this article to eating dim sum like a pro, as well as suggestions
on some super places to dine, everywhere from here in the Bay Area and all the
way to Paris. Check it out.
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The
latest issue of the culinary world’s oldest and certainly finest academic
journals, Gastronomica, includes my study
on modern dim sum history, a personal pet project I’ve been working on for, oh,
a couple of years.
Modern History as
Reflected in a Teahouse Mirror is about the special ways in which
contemporary life was echoed in Guangdong’s dim sum parlors between 1880 and
1949.
It’s
strange when you think about it too much, but the massive changes in Chinese
society nevertheless became ensconced in these dainty morsels, making a dim sum
brunch an excellent opportunity not only to dine exceedingly well, but also to
understand Guangzhou’s fascinating modern history during those seventy
tumultuous years.
Plus,
you get new dim sum drawings!
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And
if all that wasn’t enough, how about actually sitting down and having dim sum
with me and a bunch of other food lovers while I natter on about how much I love teahouse snacks?
Join
me with some of the more illustrious members of the San Francisco branch of Les
Dames d’Escoffier for a dim sum luncheon on Saturday, May 6, 2017, from 12:30 to 3:30 at Peony Seafood Restaurant
in Oakland Chinatown.
This
is a celebration and fundraiser for the LDEI Karola Saekel Craib Excellence in
Food Journalism awards. I will be in conversation with the lovely and talented
Sarah Fritsche of the San Francisco
Chronicle, and I’ll also lead you through a delightful luncheon featuring
fine teas and a wide range of savory and sweet dim sum treats.
You
want a tea master? We have a tea master. You want live zither music? We’ve got you
covered. You want to meet some of the fine people who are present and past
awardees of this honor? Look no further. I’ll even give you a free, very hip,
and totally temporary dim sum tattoo. I mean, this will be Christmas in May.
The
party is open to everyone, not just Les Dames members, so check out this link for tickets and more
information.
