For China with Toothpicks

A young and penetrating look to the current China, to know first hand what this world, so rich and seductive, has today that to offer us.

«Never eating with toothpicks you go so far as to stuff yourself. It is impossible to take big quantities to the mouth and the meal is digested better. The Chinese they are usually hours sat to the table and hardly ever the content of the plates is finished. The tradition says that to leave meal remains in the plate is of good education: it was interpreted that the host had been sufficiently generous. But in these days it orders the pocket, and the traditions stay in the background.

So the Chinese, when they go to a restaurant and meal remains them, they take it to house. It is necessary to say “Bao dao” to the bartender: "to go”.» Andrea Rodés exercises the journalism in China, and fruit of this experience is the present book, agile introduction to an exotic reality and simultaneously daily: his schedules, his cities, his nations, his buildings, his rivers and his seas, his mountains, his trains... and his kitchen. The one that eats up in the tables of the restaurants and in the houses. Because the kitchen, perhaps the most typical and lasting feature of every society, and undoubtedly one of the symbols of China, is the element chosen like spine of this work, lucky sum of personal testimony, chronicle of actuality, story of trips and reportage on the vertiginous change of a country ready to be opened (and to be imposed) to the world.

Andre Rodes. - For China with Toothpicks. Editions I Destine. 2008

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