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Doina Ruști on China and Literature: Festivals, Translations, and Successful Novels
“I’ll complain to the Palace, mistress! Do you have any idea how many kinds of dishes I have to cook tonight?”
And he began listing them so fast that no one could stop him, until, bumping into me in the narrow space between Caterina and the waitress, he tossed at me—just as hurriedly—a question:
“Have you ever eaten cockchafers, my young lady?”
And, imagining that I hadn’t understood, he added:
“Melolontha, miss! Now do you know?”
(Doina Ruști – The Book of Perilous Dishes)*
