I second your vote for the subject of her third book!

Rose, thanks for the encouraging words about the reviews–book reviews are some of my favorite writing to do, really.

And yeah–I knew it was out in Asia–it was supposed to be out in the UK last year, and I think it was, but I didn’t torture myself with looking for it. I waited until it came here. Even though it was hard to do so….

Mary Ann–Henry Chung’s Hunan cookbook is quite simply the best book on the subject in English. It is quite good and easy to cook from, but it isn’t easy to find, and it isn’t very in depth. It also helps to have color photographs–it builds cook’s confidence to know what a dish is supposed to end up looking like!

Everyone else–a review is coming next week, along with some recipes. I already cooked one from it last night and we are doing one or two tonight, and probably more over the weekend….Next week’s posts will probably be devoted completely to this book!