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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food Classics_Gift_Guide You won’t want this storyFinalist for the 2024 IACP Award for Literary or Historical Food Writing An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick * A Food & Wine Best Food Book of 2023 * A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 * One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023 The world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes. Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers