Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper

Fuchsia lived in China off and on for about ten years. She entered China as a journalist and left intrigued with its cuisine. And what a cuisine? Is there anything they don't eat in China? I honestly cannot imagine getting all googly-eyed over snapping off and crunching on rabbit heads. Ick. And bladders? Eek. Dunlop's final confrontation is with a caterpillar crawling on a leaf in her garden at home in England. I hope I'm not giving anything away when I tell you that she plucked the caterpillar off the leaf and popped it in her mouth and regarded the entire affair as a triumph of her new eating sensibilities. Sorry, but I must comment with a final yuck.