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Books : The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing
by: Grace Young

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5951
EAN: 9780684847399
ISBN: 0684847396
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: May 05, 1999
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Sales Rank: 80495
Studio: Simon & Schuster


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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - a very special cookbook
This wonderful books opens the door to understanding Chinese food as medicine. It is truly full of wisdom, and very practical. A treasure!



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - authentic chinese recipes
yep! it brings me back home when i read through this book and taste the recipes!

glad this book was published!



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen
The book is amazing and everything I had hoped it would be.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent Read and Reference book on Chinese Recipes
Grace Young's writing style is very thoughtful and a testament to her ability to embrace her Chinese Heritage and prescribe its finer aspects in cooking to a reader who has only a basic familiarity of that culture.

Her writing is reflective, beautiful, nostalgic, concise, thoughtful, and with an elusiveness that only a true philosopher could have that motivates the spirit in wanting to learn more not only about cooking, but about how everything in life is balanced together.

I've been reading this book while I've had a very bad flu and her sections on the medicinal values of ingredients in Chinese cooking has been a blessing to me.

The book is well organized with a vivid introduction of her life growing up in San Francisco Chinatown; her observations thru family anecdotes. Then she breaks down recipes with wonderful introductions in categories from rice, wok cooking, steam cooking, and two broader sections related to cooking and "The Art of Celebration" and "Achieving Ying Yang Harmony."

There are excellent instructions, pictures, and descriptions of key ingredients written in chinese with a photo so that while in a Chinese supermarket, you can find the ingredients.

There's also and excellent reference section in the back on the ingredients.

Little things such as eating congee (jook) when ill to aid the body in releasing toxins had an immediate effect on my health. Also, her recipe for "Dried Fig Apple Almond" soup immediately cured me of my coughing problems.

Her instructions on the recipe are very concise. If you follow her instructions academically, you will achieve the intent of the dish.

After reading this book, I look at eating more than just as a pleasure, but as a means of sustaining a longer and healthier life.

I only had one problem and that relates to the phonetics used in the pronunciation of some of the terms in chinese. People at the stores seldom understood what I was asking for, but fortunately, there were pictures.

Great read and a book that is a permanent reference guide.

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