Invitation to a Banquet Spring26 Crab Louie

Crab Louie

Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation

colourful narrative enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries

whose fey drawings of some of Western literature’s most famous characters will delight and enthrall

Invitation to a Banquet Spring26 Crab LouieWINNER OF THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force Claudia Roden The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious