A writer of good taste

A writer of good taste

这位英国美食作家，为什么沉迷于中国美食?

British gourmet Fuchsia Dunlop's posts on social media networks, WeChat or Instagram, are fun to read. You could say they serve up a diet of humor. Most of the posts are about her experience with food from around the world. But since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in London last February, she has posted more about her cooking, especially Chinese dishes she made in her kitchen.

英国美食家扶霞·邓洛普在微信或Instagram上发的帖子读起来很有趣，可以说是一场幽默盛宴。大多数帖子都是她在全球各地的美食经历，但自从去年2月新冠疫情在伦敦暴发以来，她发布的关于做饭的内容就更多了，尤其是她在自家厨房做的中国菜。

Growing up in a household in Oxford always filled with exotic flavors from Japan, Turkey, Spain, India and Austria, Dunlop dreamed of becoming a cook when she was little. However, her dream did not start to materialize until she came to Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, as a university student in 1994. That was when she began learning local cooking skills at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine, while looking for delicious food in the city and nearby areas.

邓洛普在牛津长大，家里充满了日本、土耳其、西班牙、印度和奥地利等国的异域风味。从小她就梦想着成为一名厨师。然而，直到1994年，她来到四川省会成都上大学，她的这个梦想才开始逐渐实现。当时她开始一边在四川烹饪高等专科学校学习当地的烹饪技能，一边在成都和附近地区探寻美食。

Since then, she has published four books about Sichuan cuisine. She has also written one on recipes from Hunan province, and Land of Fish and Rice in 2016 about recipes from Jiangnan, which includes Shanghai, and provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and southern Anhui - the region that is " blessed with a warm and nurturing climate, fertile land, and lakes, rivers and coastal waters that teem with fish and seafood" .

那时起，她已经出版了四本关于四川美食的书。除此之外，她还写了一本湘菜食谱，2016年又写了介绍江南地区的食谱《鱼米之乡》。江南包括上海、浙江、江苏和安徽南部，那儿气候温暖宜人，土地肥沃，江河湖泊和沿海水域盛产鱼类和海鲜。

Having studied Chinese food culture for nearly two decades, she regards the Jiangnan region as the heartland of the nation's gastronomy.

在研究了中国饮食文化近二十年后，她认为江南地区是中国美食文化的中心。

" Although you have really interesting and delicious food all over China, in this region, particularly, people wrote about it and discussed it. Many of the old classic food books came from this region. So if you talk about gastronomy, and not just about good food, then Jiangnan is a really important region, " she says.

她说:“尽管全中国各地都有很有趣又美味的食物，但在(江南)这个地区，人们尤其会去写美食、讨论美食。很多古老的美食典籍都来自这个地区。所以真的要谈美食文化，而不仅仅是好吃的食物的话，江南真的是一个非常重要的地区。"