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| The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing | 
 enlarge | Author: Grace Young
Creator: Alan Richardson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 202781
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0684847396
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5951
EAN: 9780684847399
ASIN: 0684847396
Publication Date: May 5, 1999
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 Authentic Chinese "soul food" June 25, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best cookbook that I have read in years! The recipes are great and the stories evoke memories of growing up with my Asian extended family. If you want to prepare dishes that feed your soul as well as your appetite, buy this book. (It's especially useful for the neophyte as it explains the ingredients in full detail.)
Excellent Philosophy, Traditions and Recipes June 10, 1999
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I feel that Grace Young have put together an excellent cook book with history of cooking recipes from her large families. Its a great reading book, with all its old traditions. She has captured all the generations, and generations of our ancestors very unique and techniques in preparations of the Chinese meal. Cooking a Chinese meal means to put in a lot of time and preparations. This brings back lots of old memories of myself helping and cooking with my mother. We learned at a very young age to mainly help prepared if not the actual cooking, which sometimes its more important than the actual cooking the meal. For this is the art of preparing that Grace Young have actually describe in her book. I aso enjoyed the selected topics of each chapter of the book, especially the one on chapter 3, "The Meaning Of Rice" is very interesting and to the point of what is important in a Chinese meal. Its a great book to have and to keep with all its philosophy, traditions and great and simple recipes that I think anyone can follow. "The Wisdon Of The Chinese Kitchen" have been very well written and put together for easy and enjoyable reading, and of course the simplicity of her recipes. Great job Grace.
 Weak on Technique May 31, 1999
20 out of 27 found this review helpful
The stories, recipes and information about home style Cantonese cooking have great appeal. The book strikes a balance of soups steamed and stir-fried food. The writing is a pleasure to read. In one chapter, Grace Young, goes to great length to emphasize the need to cut food properly to achieve a balance in taste. Here is where the book fails to live up to its promise. While the author explains the need to cut food properly, she fails to provide complete descriptions, illustrations and photographs of exactly how the food should be cut. Cutting techniques for Cantonese food may not be a mystery to those who already know the dishes, but for those of us are new to Chinese cooking, they are. While there are some descriptions of how to cut in the recipes, no where are the kind of helpful, explicit details that might be learned by a novice learning French cooking by reading Jacques Pepin or Julia Child. Pictures dealing with other aspects of preparation are also scarce. The chart identifying food is too small to be of much use. The photographs showing finished dishes are too few and, again, too small to be helpful to a novice looking for clues about a dish's preparation.
Simply a great Chinese cookbook! May 13, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've read and tried a lot of Chinese cookbooks and nothing really worked (not even ones written in Chinese)! Until this one! It is full of recipes that are true to the Chinese way of cooking (not altered to make it easier for the Western world). The step-by-step instructions are great (my mom thinks so too). The best part about this book is it includes some festive dishes which can be tricky to make! Now I can surprise my mom and mother-in-law with some really good festive dishes!
Absolutely wonderful stories and equally wonderful recipes. May 7, 1999
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm not really a cook. But I love reading cook books. And this is by far the best I've read this year. It's a family memoir. It's a love letter. It's a book about Chinese herbs. I might even go back into the kitchen!Thank you Grace Young.
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