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Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

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Food for Thought: Series 1: Episode 5: Jung Chang

Jung Chang

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Episode 5: Jung Chang

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BBC Radio 4 - Food for Thought, Series 1, Jung Chang

Nina Myskow discovers how food and Sichuan spice shaped celebrated author Jung Chang.

Over lunch in a Sichuan restaurant, Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, explains how food defines her identity and changing tastes have shaped her life.

Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, shape and affect individual lives. 

Settled over a lunch of ma po tofu and bitter melon greens, celebrated author Jung Chang recalls a life of adjustments and accommodations to place, identity and food. She describes the powerful memories evoked by a plate of double-cooked pork, spiked with her native Sichuan spice and discusses her changing tastes since arriving in Britain and the success of her memoir Wild Swans.

The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4.

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Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

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