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Chopsticks, Cleaver, and Wok: Homestyle Chinese Cooking

Jennie Low

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A must have if you love Chinese cooking! 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I have owned this book for over 20 years. I have used it so much, mine is falling apart, so I am replacing it! If you want easy to follow recipe's and clear techniques, this is the book to own. When it's my turn to do the Holiday cooking, everyone requests Chinese over Turkey. It's easy to adapt your own style of cooking with the recipes in this book. This is a must have for your cookbook library.

Editorial Review:

With 130,000 copies sold, Jennie Low's Chopsticks, Cleaver, and Wok is a Chinese cooking classic -- and now it has a newly updated look. Jennie Low's clear, step-by-step instructions make it possible for even the beginning cook to prepare gourmet Chinese meals. She explains it all: how to shop, how to chop, how to stir-fry, and how to use a wok. There is even a glossary of Chinese food terms presented both in English and in Chinese characters to allow the reader to shop with ease in Asian markets. Jennie Low's is the essential cookbook for anyone who wishes to cook authentic dishes in the Chinese style.

Potsticker Chronicles: America's Favorite Chinese Recipes

Stuart Chang Berman

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Pretty Awesome!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I love chinese food! Never could make it right though and nothing ever tasted like I got in the restaurants. Most chinese cookbooks seemed to miss the mark where it came to replicating the restaurant type food. I gave up on chinese food altogether for over 10 years.

I bought this on a whim this last winter and couldn't believe how good this stuff was. For me, it cracked the nut on restaurant style chinese cooking. This stuff is so freaking easy and the same ingredients in varying quantities are used throughout the book. You DO NOT have to have an extensive pantry to make this stuff and it is as tasty as anything you will ever order in a restaurant.

As a matter of policy and courtesy, I usually don't say anything about another review but there is one here that talks about having to use two cups of oil everytime you make something and how it isn't all that practicle. The person is right, for a lot of recipes the books tells you to have 2 cups of oil to cook your meat but you don't have to. I just sautee mine when I'm not in the mood to go all out or just use my deep fat frying and just reuse the oil like I normally would for anything else. It's not that big of a deal.

The sauces in this book are worth the price on their own and you won't be sorry.

Editorial Review:

Explore the culinary riches of China . . .

in this enchanting cookbook and memoir by celebrated chef and cooking instructor Stuart Chang Berman.

Heartwarming and authentic, this beautifully produced collection of classic Chinese recipes and enchanting personal stories guides you on an enticing journey to explore one of the world's most popular cuisines.

Secrets of Fat-free Chinese Cooking (Secrets of Fat-free Cooking)

Ying Chang Compestine

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

The title should be called low fat instead of fat-free 3 out of 5 stars.
8 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I was interested in buying this book. I read the previews of other readers, and I went to public library to check out this book before I invest money on this book. I am reaserching for the food combination from Suzanne Somers diet. For level one, one combination is that the veggies can combine with carbos but without fat (oil). In Chinese cooking, it is very hard to achieve bringing out the flavors from spice without oil. I am a Chinese housewife, and I have some knownedledge of Chinese cooking. Just by reading it, I can see these dishes might not be very flavory (especially Tofu dishes, which need some effort to get taste into this ingredient(tofu) through stewing or some heavy tasty paste).

In most of the receipes, cornstartch is used very often, which is the thing I try to avoid (refined carbos). This book uses many cooking spray (which is oil) in many dishes. It has some fat free dishes, but I consider they are not significant enough to be called such title as Fat-Free Chinese Cooking. A low fat title is more proper for it. This is a very American-Chinese cookbook taste.

Well, I'll keep looking for some other fat-free (or low fat) cookbook to see if there is some idea to replace oil in Chinese cooking.

Editorial Review:

More than 130 delicious, healthful recipes--including new versions of traditional favorites and innovative low-fat dishes--incorporate the best in Chinese cookery and are accompanied by complete nutritional data for each dish. Original. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. IP.

All the Tea in China

Kit Chow, Ione Kramer

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Not much information on Chinese tea 1 out of 5 stars.
40 of 46 people found this review helpful.

This book might be useful to someone looking for a book with general information about tea, but for someone who wants to learn about the real art of Chinese tea, this book is useless . The book does not go into any detail about important elements of Chinese tea drinking such as Yixing teapots and the gongfu brewing method; it just tries to explain them in a few sentences. After reading this book, you will hardly have gained any knowledge of Chinese tea at all.
The book is obviously an imitation of John Blofeld's "The Chinese Art of Tea", which is an excellent book on the subject of Chinese tea. This book even copied the format of "The Chinese Art of Tea" by inserting small drawings in the margins, and they also copied the teahouse section of "The Chinese Art of Tea". The only thing they forgot to copy was all the good information.

The section in this book on tea brewing, entitled "How to Make a Nice Cup of Tea", provides instructions on making tea that could only be used to make tea for your dogs. The book does not explain any of the Chinese brewing methods, it seems like the authors just read the back of a Lipton box and copied into their book. If you are interested in Chinese tea, it is much better to find a few good websites on Chinese tea than to buy this book. Anybody who has even a small amount of knowledge of Chinese tea can see that this book is very badly made.

Fish: Chinese Style Made Easy

Wei-Chuan Publishing, Mu-Tsun Lee, Hsueh-Hsia Chen

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Beauiful, simple and very yummy yummy 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful.

This is one of my favorites. The beautiful color pictures are great. The instructions are simple and easy to follow. The list of ingredients clear. I tried many of the dishes and haven't been disappointed yet.

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Trilingual: English, Chinese and Spanish.

The Healing Cuisine of China: 300 Recipes for Vibrant Health and Longevity

Zhuo Zhao, George Ellis

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

A comprehensive guide to the Chinese art of healing with food 

• Provides more than 300 authentic Chinese recipes for curing specific ailments and for promoting happiness and vitality 

• Explains the theories behind traditional Chinese beliefs about health and diet and reconciles these beliefs with contemporary Western medical knowledge 

• Includes a complete fitness program centered on the popular Chinese qi gong exercises 

Through 5,000 years of recorded history the Chinese have developed an unequaled pharmacopoeia of food remedies and have turned this knowledge into a delicious cuisine that is simple to prepare. This cuisine has little in common with the dishes on the menus of many Chinese restaurants--which have sacrificed traditional Chinese principles to appeal to high-fat Western tastes. Instead, it emphasizes all-natural ingredients eaten in season and in the most beneficial combinations. 

The Healing Cuisine of China features more than 300 authentic Chinese recipes, ranging from simple preparations to cure specific ailments to traditional "longevity banquets." The authors also explain the underlying theories behind traditional Chinese beliefs about health and reconcile these ancient beliefs with Western medical knowledge about bacteria, viruses, and other causes of disease. A complete fitness program, centered on the popular Chinese qi gong exercises, and a questionnaire to help readers discover their individual body requirements make this the most comprehensive guide to the healthy lifestyle of China ever published.

The Tammy Wynette Southern Cookbook

Tammy Wynette

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Love Tammy's Cooking 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I Just love Tammy Wynette. She was a true southern lady. This is the second purchase for this cookbook, I loaned mine out and she refused to give it back because the recipes were out of this world. I just can't live without it. Once I have put together one of the recipes in her book, people always ask for the recipe or ask for me to make it again. Tammy believed in southern cooking, and she believed as well as I do, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. How true that is, my husband loves my cooking when Tammy's in the kitchen with me. I reccomend this book highly it is money well spent.

Editorial Review:

The undisputed First Lady of Country Music, Tammy Wynette is a three-time winner of the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year award and winner of two Grammy Awards. With the introduction of this book, Tammy shares some of the secrets that have helped her to keep her Southern roots in the midst of all her fame. Enter Tammy's kitchen and learn how she prepares Southern favourites such as Mississippi-Style Stuffed Bell Peppers, Cornmeal-Fried Potatoes, and Sour Cream Pound Cake. From snacks and beverages to unique entrees and desserts, there is something for everyone. Most of the recipes are long-time specialities of Tammy's family, and she prepares them most often by memory with no recipes at all. Tammy's love for fresh vegetables, hearty meats, and home-made breads is apparent, and she translates this love for fresh food into robust Southern dishes. Along with many of the recipes, she includes brief histories and anecdotes that she associates with the dish.

DK Living: Yan-Kit's Classic Chinese Cookbook

Yan-kit So

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

easy to follow and a treat to eat 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I received this book for Christmas and I have been cooking chinese food like mad crazy ever since. The best section of the book is the beginning which gives an overview of different chinese ingredients which might be unfamiliar to the novice. I've had success with each and every recipe I have tried---from the Tossed Noodles with Ginger and Scallions to Sweet Corn Soup. My favorite is the Dry-fried Four-Swason Beans on page 203. And also, my brother had been talking for months and months of a crispy seaweed dish that he loved to eat at chinese restaurants in England. I never had any idea what he was talking about until I found the "Seaweed" recipe in this book. It was so easy to make and he said that it was just as he remembered. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to start experimenting with Chinese food in the kitchen.

Editorial Review:

Whether you want to cook a quick and nutritious family meal or impress with a spectacular dinner party, "Yan-Kit" teaches you how to chop, slice, stir-fry, steam, roast and braise fantastic authentic Chinese food. Find out how to master the equipment and techniques that will enable you to turn exotic ingredients into fabulous food. Try over 140 step-by-step recipes for all kinds of dishes drawn from China's regional culinary traditions, from Sweet and Sour Pork to Cantonese Fire Pot and Bean Curd Puffs, with clear guidance on how to prepare and cook each dish. Get chopping - tasty results guaranteed every time!

A Taste of China: The Definitive Guide to Regional Cooking (Pavilion Classic Cookery)

Ken Hom

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A must-have for an overseas chinese! 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 11 people found this review helpful.

A very fascinating and practical guide to the real authentic chinese cooking. Very well researched and easy to follow. Being an overseas chinese, I only use to hear about these authentic dishes from my grandfather, today I am keeping the tradition alive by cooking them! Two Thumbs up!

Editorial Review:

A Taste of China combines a lively and informative narrative with authentic recipes from Ken Hom's travels within mainland China. His journey takes him from the private homes of family and friends, through the food stalls in bustling urban markets, to the local restaurants and tea houses. Ken travelled to almost every region of China and in this book presents a sense of the history, culture, and lives of the Chinese people. Here are recipes from all the regions of China—Green Beans stir fried with Chilli from Sichuan, Wonton Noodle Soup from Canton, and Fantasy Pork from Yunnan. Seasoned with glimpses into everyday Chinese life, A Taste of China is a glorious and rare culinary journey to enjoy and savor.

Introducing Chinese Casserole Cookery

Ariel Jane Spear

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Introducing Chinese Casserole Cookery 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

My copy of this book was published in 1978. I have used it regularly. Each time my family gets together I surprise them with another wonderful dish made from this lovely cookbook. I was also happy to see Ms. Kah and I have matured gracefully over these years. During the last 26 years I have made almost all the dishes, repeated several time after time and still love it. Don't be afraid to give this book a real try -- you'll be happy you did.

scallop recipes 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I just got my 1978 edition today and I am most excited by the scallop recipes.

Editorial Review:

Chinese Casserole Cookery is a book that has easy-to-follow recipes which can enable the afficianados of Chinese food to cook a dinner with less anxiety that a feast of serveral last-minute stir-fired dishes can bring on. Incorporating a few casserole dishes, which can be prepared in advance, will enable the cook to ahve a dinner party without a nervous breakdown.