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Books : Every Grain of Rice: A Taste of Our Chinese Childhood in America |
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Books : Every Grain of Rice: A Taste of Our Chinese Childhood in America |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5951 EAN: 9780609601020 ISBN: 0609601024 Label: Clarkson Potter Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: May 26, 1998 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Release Date: May 26, 1998 Sales Rank: 731367 Studio: Clarkson Potter Editorial Review: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Have bought copies for everyone I know who would like to cook ChineseThis is a beautiful and touching cookbook. The authors realized in midlife that their Aunties, Parents, and Grandparents were passing on and that they, the next generation, were ill-equipped to pass on the traditions and share the skills of making the food they remembered from when they were growing up. So they set about remedying the situation by cooking with their relatives until they could recreate the recipes and understand the philosophy behind much of the food that has meaning to them. I am not Chinese, but I grew up in a Chinese area of San Francisco and so have many of the same fondnesses for Chinese cooking, and this book is the first one I have found (and I have MANY Chinese cookbooks!) that has a Tomato Beef Chow Main recipe (and an excellent one, I might add - exactly what I remember from the local restaurants I ate at as a kid). If you have ever tried to make wontons and failed, try this book. If you enjoy cookbooks which combine short, personal stories with the recipes to give the recipes a context and a meaning, then buy this book. The illustrations add so much to the amazing recipes, too. This makes an excellent gift for anyone missing Chinese home cooking, or for anyone who has a weakness for dim sum. The authors also have a book on cooking dim sum which is excellent as well. I prefer this one mostly because I prefer cooking meals to dim sum type foods and because I have such fond memories of so many of these foods, but I found both books easy to follow and both have produced truly excellent results on the first tries. HIGHLY Recommended. Rating: - Just like the food my Grandpa used to cookThe best Chinese cookobook bar none. Easy to follow recipes. Taste like the stuff my grandfather used to cook. Rating: - This book rocks!Great little stories but the REAL gems are the recipes. Not only do they work, they also deliver in the flavor department! I've been looking for a good char sui pork recipe since I was a teen. I've tried a bunch and I've been burned by them all, except the recipe in this book. Fabulous (and it freezes well too!) Great book. Rating: - Getting in touch with my rootsAfter having moved away from home for a number of years, I started to realize and appreciate the important role of food to Chinese culture, family and traditions. Much to my chagrin, I had learned very little about the Chinese family kitchen while growing up. While I was nourished by the comfort foods my mother and aunts had made for us, I had very little knowledge of the mechanics of producing these offerings of love. Blonder and Low have done an impressive job of bringing back to the memories of my childhood, where food plays such a central role in Chinese family life. I have tried many of the recipes in this book and most of them have turned out just the way I recall my mother making them. And most of all, the stories and anecdotes demonstrate how Every Grain of Rice inextricably links culture and food to Chinese traditions. The authors recall momentous occasions such as Chinese New Year and donning their "best" clothes; the excitement of receiving little red "luy see". This book is all about comfort foods. It's about home cooking in the Chinese family. You will rarely find these dishes in a restaurant. My cousin was looking through this book and disdainfully noted how the recipes were so "chop suey". I don't know if his description is correct, but you will rarely find these dishes in a restaurant. Perhaps he was comparing it to the sometimes over-complicated and sophisticated, "gourment-style" Chinese cookbooks. It is certainly not that. It is purely about childhood memories of growing up Chinese in North America.
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