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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
List Price: $30.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 57617
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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Condition: Outstanding condition! Brand new! May have slight shelfwear. Clean, tight, and crisp!
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 Great cookbook! September 22, 2008
I recently borrowed this cookbook from the local library, loved it and now I'm ordering my own copy. This book has recipes for the many dishes I grew up with, but unfortunately never learned to make. The stories the author provides is reminiscent of the memories I grew up with.
a very special cookbook January 24, 2008
This wonderful books opens the door to understanding Chinese food as medicine. It is truly full of wisdom, and very practical. A treasure!
authentic chinese recipes May 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
yep! it brings me back home when i read through this book and taste the recipes!
glad this book was published!
The wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen January 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is amazing and everything I had hoped it would be.
Excellent Read and Reference book on Chinese Recipes January 2, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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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