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New cookbook gives readers a taste of the 'other' China
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Into the Beyond
Naomi Duguid was in Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan province, when she met an 82-year-old Swiss woman, her fingers bedecked with silver and Tibetan turquoise. The woman told Duguid she was taking the overnight train to Chengdu, then flying to Tibet. Duguid was also taking the overnight train and going on to Tibet, but the final leg of her journey would be by bus.
It was 1985, and China had recently begun allowing foreigners to visit Tibet, which it had previously sealed off in an effort to subdue indigenous residents, who were struggling to regain their independence.The next day, the two women shared a taxi to the train station. "As we stood in an echoing noisy tunnel under the tracks, waiting in a crowd to board the train, we almost had to shout to each other to be heard," Duguid says in Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China, her latest cookbook written with her husband, Jeffrey Alford.The older woman told Duguid her name was Ella Maillart, and she had...See the full content of this document
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