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My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons
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Manufacturer: HP Trade
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5951
EAN: 9781557885050
ISBN: 1557885052
Label: HP Trade
Manufacturer: HP Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-12-05
Publisher: HP Trade
Studio: HP Trade
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Award-winning cookbook author and celebrated food expert Eileen Yin-Fei Lo learned how to cook from her talented grandmother. This inspiring and instructive book collects 100 recipes the author learned in her grandmother's kitchen, along with the life lessons, observations, and other gifts she hopes to pass on to readers and future generations.
Cherished holiday recipes include steamed buns and fish congees for birthdays, vegetables prepared during the Lunar New Year, and rice dumplings made for the Dragon Boat Festival. All the essential techniques of the Chinese kitchen are represented, including stir-frying, steaming, roasting, stewing, braising, and more.
A volume to cook from, to share, and to read as a memoir in its own right, My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen celebrates a great culinary tradition by sharing family wisdom and timeless recipes.
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Summary: i love this cookbook
Comment: I always love reading about cultures and mixed with food (my favorite passtime) - this is a treasure of book with genuine recipes that my family and my family before that have cooked. It bought a lot of great memories back for me of eating with the family and talkig naround the table. I was even surprised to see a recipe that is cooked for mothers who have just given birth (pigs feet with ginger). there are so many treasured recipes and for many of the recipes that I have tried, they have come out just great. reading and eating - what a lovely combination.
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Summary: Cantonese cooking for the Cantonese
Comment: My Cantonese wife is very much enjoying this cookbook. And I am enjoying the results. The cookbook is filled with lots of little tips, in addition to great recipes and background stories. Would make an excellent addition to the cookbook shelf, though it will probably be kept (well used) on the countertop!
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Summary: Personal book on Chinese home cooking
Comment: I love this book for its author's personal entries and photos. The recipes are good, but some were not a part of my personal experience. For those recipes I go to Ken Hom's Easy Recipes from a Chinese American Childhood Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood (Knopf Cooks American Series) and Every Grain of Rice, by Ellen Blonder and Annabel Low.Every Grain of Rice: A Taste of Our Chinese Childhood in America However, it is fascinating to learn about cookbook author and cooking instructor Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's life. I own some of Ms. Lo's other cookbooks and look forward to trying some of the recipes in this one. I'm sure each recipe has been meticulously tested.
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Summary: My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen
Comment: This delightful book will transform the way you think about cooking, about food, and likely about life as well.
Tracing her own skills back to the critical lessons she learned at a tender young age from her beloved Grandmother, Eileen Yin-Fei Lo takes you on a journey from simple baby steps (how to make perfect rice) right up to more
exotic Holiday dishes. But more than just helping you to understand how to cook properly, how to respect the ingredients, the Gods of the kitchen and more, she also shares a whole philosophy of life. An insight into how the Chinese look at things.
You could read this book without lifting one spatula, nor steaming one precious fish, and feel enriched and ennobled by the experience.
I can personally strongly recommend this profound tome to all.
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Summary: She's sharing her private treasury of information.
Comment: This one has family photos and anecdotes. The author once managed a silk shop in Chunking Mansions. I would have liked to have read about the snacks she ate then but I guess she did a lot of cooking and probably didn't like to eat street food so much. She reminds you to remove the skin on the gingkos and the bitter stem as well.
This book requires a scale though because she gives ingredients in weights.
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