Imperial cuisine encompasses the meals emperors ate daily and the feasts their courts held throughout the year, each dish with its own rituals. Chinese cuisine has historically carried meaning beyond food, reflecting broader ideas about politics, culture and aesthetics that have evolved as circumstances changed, Wandi Wang, professor of Chinese, told The Associated Press. “Preserving a culinary tradition begins with taking its history seriously,” Wang said. “Culinary heritage tells us not only how people ate in the past, but also how people in the present choose to remember and give meaning to that past.”
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