Corrine Lamb’s Chinese Festive Board

Corrine Lamb’s (nominative determinism?) study of Chinese manners and dining etiquette first published in 1935 by Henri Vetch of the Peking Bookshop in the lobby of the Grand Hotel de Pekin (Chang’an Jie). Complemented by a selection of Chinese proverbs, line drawings (by long time Peking based American illustrator John Kirk Sewall) and photographs. Chapters deal with the convention of Chinese food, wine, ingredients, and how to order a meal. In addition, the book features a selection of recipes gathered by the author over twenty years of hospitality at the tables of princes, peasants, generals, and innkeepers.