like cilantro at all, be sure not to eliminate or substitute for it. The way that fresh, herbal zing counterpoints the salty, chili-beany, fragrant rice meal coating…oh man. Fuchsia Dunlop, I love you. Please make this dish. It’s...

Gosh JoanN, I’m just glad you had no emergencies during that cooking session. I hate – Really Hate - to deep fry in my kitchen. You get mega points for your effort. I find that some of Fuchsia's instructions and...

I made the General Tso’s chicken from Fuchsia Dunlops new book on Hunan cooking. The recipe was quite simple and delicious. My DH really enjoyed it. I had to give up after a bite or two the chilis and my raw sore throat did...

Dana: Here’s a link to the General Tso’s Chicken recipe in the NYT. It’s in a very interesting article written by.... you guessed it! ... Fuchsia Dunlop. It goes into the history of the dish and its origins. And...

dish will be way way too salty. Dunlop mentions this on page 27 of RC, but I haven’t found a similar warning in LOP. We made a number of substitutions in the recipe so I could count it as “core” for Weight...

Simple chopped chiles preserved in salt—they work in everything.

The scare over tainted food products from China keeps getting, um, scarier. Is small-scale production the problem?

This just in: General Tso’s Chicken not really Chinese. Next up: Pepperoni Hot Pockets not actually eaten in Italy!

I did a search just now and couldn’t find the results of the February Cookbook of the Month. It was Asian, I think. Hot Salty Sour Sweet and Fuchsia Dunlop's sichuan or hunan cookbooks. Anybody?

The Chicago Tribune reports that the ban on Sichuan peppercorns was modified in January to allow for the importation of peppercorns that had been heated to 140 degrees for ten minutes. Fuchsia Dunlop reported that she...

For a dissenting view of MSG, see Fuchsia Dunlop's interesting op-ed piece in today’s NY Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/opinion/18dunlop.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

You may be looking for yu xiang—fish fragrance eggplant. (No fish is involved in the recipe.) Try Fuchsia Dunlop.

For Christmas I got a copy of Fuchsia Dunlop's wonderful new book on Hunan cooking. Now I NEED chinese bacon. Is there any to be had in the Raleigh-Durham area? Thanks

There is a tasty version “SPICY CUCUMBER SALAD - qiang huang guo ” on pages 185-186 of Land of Plenty..... by Fuchsia Dunlop but I haven’t seen this particular recipe of her’s on line. http

If you like spicy Chinese, there are some good vegetarian version of mapo tofu and dry-fried green beans, both Sichuanese, in Fuchsia Dunlop's book Land of Plenty. There are other sources for the same recipes, this is just one...