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liuzhou

liuzhou

11 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Claudia Roden has a new book that not only has different US and UK cover design but also different titles.  

 

That is quite common for all kinds of books. I have one friend (British) who bought Fuchsia Dunlop's "Sichuan Cookery" and loved it so much that, when she saw another book called "Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking" by the same author, she had to have that, too.

When it was delivered she was disappointed to discover it she now had two copies of the same book - the only minor difference being that weights were in grams in the UK version but in some obscure medieval concepts like 'cups' and 'taels'or some such in the US version.

When Dunlop published 'The Food of Sichuan' later, my friend was suspicious. Quite rightly. It is a revised version of the two she already has. It too, has the same slight differences between the USA and UK versions, but the same cover.

It has been translated and to my amusement the Chinese name is 川菜 which is a direct translation of the first title, 'Sichuan Cookery'!
 

Here is my battered and splash-stained copy of the first title.

 

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and the third in the UK version

 

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liuzhou

liuzhou

1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:

Claudia Roden has a new book that not only has different US and UK cover design but also different titles.  

 

That is quite common for all kinds of books. I have one friend (British) who bought Fuchsia Dunlop's "Sichuan Cookery" and loved it so much that, when she saw another book called "Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking" by the same author, she had to have that, too.

When it was delivered she was disappointed to discover it she now had two copies of the same book - the only minor difference being that weights were in grams in the UK version but in some obscure medieval concepts like 'cups' and 'taels'or some such in the US version.

When Dunlop published 'The Food of Sichuan' later, my friend was suspicious. Quite rightly. It is a revised version of the two she already has. It too, has the same slight differences between the USA and UK versions, but the same cover.

It has been translated and to my amusement the Chinese name is 川菜 which is a direct translation of the first title, 'Sichuan Cookery'!

 

liuzhou

liuzhou

1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:

Claudia Roden has a new book that not only has different US and UK cover design but also different titles.  

 

That is quite common for all kinds of books. I have one friend (British) who bought Fuchsia Dunlop's "Sichuan Cookery" and loved it so much that, when she saw another book called "Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking" by the same author, she had to have that, too.

When it was delived she was disappointed to discover it she now had two copies of the same book - the only minor differences being that weights were in grams in the UK version but in some obscure medieval concepts like 'cups' and 'taels'or some such.

When Dunlop published 'The Food of Sichuan' later. my friend was suspicious. Quite rightly. It is a revised version of the two she already has. It too, has slight differences between the USA and UK versions, but the same cover.

It has been translated and to my amusement the Chinese name is 川菜 which is a direct translation of the first title, 'Sichuan Cookery'!

 

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