This was an utterly delicious read, beautifully written, entertaining and informative, one of those books you just can't put down. The information about Chinese culinary traditions was especially riveting and the author weaves it into the story in such a poignant and beautiful way, that you can't he...
The writing is a little wooden in a chick lit sort of way. The characters never felt terribly real to me. However, the food descriptions are lovely - it made me want to eat my way through China.