L'etoile asked me to start this discussion about our June book club selection.

I thought I'd throw out a quote from the author Nicole Mones' website:

"As I learned Chinese, I also came to see that the cuisine had a secret language of its own. From seating to serving to the menu itself, every arranged meal sent signals without words. Often in those years I would hear foreign businessmen complain that they had sat through a three-hour banquet only to find their every attempt to discuss business rebuffed. They did not understand that the banquet itself was the conversation."

Anyone else feel like trotting off immediately to a banquet in China?