Fuchsia Dunlop
British chef
Fuchsia Charlotte Dunlop is an English writer and cook who specialises in Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuan cuisine. She is the author of seven books, including the autobiographical Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper (2008). According to Julia Moskin in The New York Times, Dunlop "has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone".
Early life and education
Dunlop was brought up in Oxford, daughter of (Michael) Bede Dunlop and Carolyn Patricia Dunlop (née Baxter). Her father, a Corpus Christi College, Oxford-educated computer analyst, is son of David Colin Dunlop, Dean of Lincoln from 1949 to 1964 and subsequently an Assistant Bishop of Lincoln. Her mother was a sales executive. She attended Oxford High School, a private day school for girls. She studied English literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge (BA 1991). She worked as a sub-editor on East Asian media reports for the BBC Monitoring Unit at Caversham. She took evening classes in Chinese at the University of Westminster, volunteered as a writer and editor on China Now and visited China twice.
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