What began as a pop-up in Visby in the summer of 2006 is now turning 20, something worth truly celebrating. To mark the occasion, we’re going big and welcoming one of our greatest sources of inspiration, author Fuchsia Dunlop, for a guest appearance on March 22–23.
For anyone engaged with Chinese food in the West, Fuchsia Dunlop has been a transformative figure, and for us her work has played a particularly important role. In the early years, when in-depth knowledge of Chinese cuisine was difficult to find in English or Swedish, her books became an obvious point of reference for us. We read from them, cooked from them, and returned to them time and again. Her writing transported us from Gotland and Visby to Sichuan and Chengdu, opening our eyes to the profound cultural significance of food in China. It is therefore with great joy and humility that we’re welcoming her, seeing this visit as a gift both to us and to our dear guests on the occasion of our 20th anniversary.
The guest dinners will be based on Fuchsia Dunlop’s latest book, Invitation to a Banquet, a book entirely without recipes, in which food instead becomes a key to understanding China’s history, philosophy, and society through her deeply personal and knowledgeable perspective.
Over the course of these two days, the shared ambition is to let what is served function in the same spirit: not merely as food, but as interpretive keys to aspects of Chinese food culture that too rarely reach the Western world.
Seats for the dinners can be booked starting January 30.
Address: Norrlandsgatan 24, Stockholm.
PRESS ENQUIRIES
Erik Holmberg, Press Contact, Surfers Stockholm
erik.holmberg@stureplansgruppen.se
ABOUT FUCHSIA DUNLOP
Fuchsia Dunlop is an award-winning British author and one of the most influential Western voices in Chinese food culture. She was the first European to train at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine and has spent more than two decades deepening Western understanding of China’s regional cuisines through an authorship that bridges gastronomy, history, and cultural analysis.
Her publications include Sichuan Cookery, Land of Plenty, Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook, Every Grain of Rice, and most recently Invitation to a Banquet.
Land of Plenty has been listed by The New York Times as one of the 25 most influential cookbooks of the past 100 years.
ABOUT US
Surfers was founded in Visby in 2006 by Mymlan Isenborg and Jonathan Bergström and opened in Stockholm in 2014.
Since October 2020, Surfers has been located at Norrlandsgatan 24.
