--- title: "3 Fuchsia Dunlop Quotes - Famous Chef" description: "British chef... | Fuchsia Charlotte Dunlop is an English writer and cook who specialises in Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuan cuisine. She is the auth..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/fuchsia-dunlop-75658_quote_the-cleaver-is-not-just-for-cutting-inve_1228083.jpg" --- # Fuchsia Dunlop (1949) Chef **3** quotes in **2** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Fuchsia Dunlop is a chef. ## Quick Facts About Fuchsia Dunlop Born November 30, 1949 Profession Chef ## About 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 exp ## Quotes by Fuchsia Dunlop > [“The cleaver is not just for cutting. Invert it and its blunt spine can be used to pound meat to a paste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fuchsia-dunlop/the-cleaver-is-not-just-for-cutting-invert-it-and-its-blunt-spine-can/) [Fuchsia Dunlop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fuchsia-dunlop/) [Cleaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cleaver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/fuchsia-dunlop-75658_quote_the-cleaver-is-not-just-for-cutting-inve_1228083.jpg) > [“learning the tones of Mandarin Chinese is difficult enough to begin with: you must distinguish between the flat first tone (m), the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fuchsia-dunlop/learning-the-tones-of-mandarin-chinese-is-difficult-enough-to-begin/) [Fuchsia Dunlop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fuchsia-dunlop/) [Making mistakes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/making-mistakes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bae/fuchsia-dunlop-75658_making-mistakes_learning-the-tones-of-mandarin-chinese-i_2473706.jpg) > [“Sichuanese dialect is like Mandarin put through a mangle. So the Mandarin ‘sh’ becomes ‘s’, vowels are stretched out like warm toffee,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fuchsia-dunlop/sichuanese-dialect-is-like-mandarin-put-through-a-mangle-so-the/) [Fuchsia Dunlop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fuchsia-dunlop/) [Mandarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mandarin-702491/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe5/fuchsia-dunlop-75658_mandarin_sichuanese-dialect-is-like-mandarin-put_2981170.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fuchsia-dunlop/#itemlist", "name": "Fuchsia Dunlop Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The cleaver is not just for cutting. Invert it and its blunt spine can be used to pound meat to a paste for meatballs: a time-consuming method, but the purée it produces is perfectly smooth and voluptuous. 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