Chinese cooking

Superchef

by Isabel Moore

Chinese Cooking (International Recipe Collection)

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Nonfiction, Culinary, China

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

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Reviews

[Elena · Rating 5 out of 5]

In 1969 my Berkeley friends and I got ahold of Emily Hahn's book about Chinese cooking...at the time Mao was devastating old China, but somehow Hahn's cooking connected us with the lives of real people used to surviving one natural and political catastrophe after another and making time to cook for family. We spread a clean sheet on the apartment living room floor because there was no dining table big enough...and turned out one rather complex dish after another to eat sitting cross legged on the floor. Since then the world has changed, China and the US both are transformed. There are still natural and political catastrophes, but the recipes still work. Best eaten on a clean sheet spread out on the lawn or floor with family. With google, I was able to look up Emily Hahn's biography, what an amazing woman she was, scientist, traveler, writer, she affected the lives of people she never met, and all for the good....

[Yee-Ning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Authentic recipes. Well-organized. Good selection of cuisine. Lovely pictures.

[Janet Whalen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Emily Hahn was an amazing character who pushed the envelope of what a respectable woman of her time could do. Living in Shanghai in the 1930's was one of those bubbles on time. This is only the tip of her iceberg. I'm on a culinary history kick right now. May actually cook something soon.

[Gordon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wish I had the recipe component instead.

[Sandy (WI girl at heart) · Rating 3 out of 5]

love cookbooks!