China’s Greatest Treasures: The Art of Food

In Alastair Sooke’s last stop on his aesthetic tour of China, he gets a taste of the country’s food. But as well as being a taste-bud tickling exploration of a great nation’s culinary arts, his journey to Beijing, the country’s capital and the Yangtze River Delta, the country’s granary, shows how in addition to helping define the identity of the ancient Chinese nation, an abundant food supply created the conditions necessary for the flourishing of all the other great arts.