Barbara’s Cookbook Gift Guide

This post really isn’t self-serving. It is simply a response to reading the holiday cookbook gift guides in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. In perusing the professionals’ lists, I saw quite a bit of overlap, particularly between the Times and the Post–to the point that I wonder whether […]

Book Review: Git in that Kitchen and Make Me Some PIE!

I have a good husband. He not only has finally come to appreciate food and can actually converse intelligently on the subject (just as I can converse intelligently on the subject of guitars), he is quite good natured about buying me odd bits of culinary equipment and cookbooks for all major holidays. And he is […]

The Chinese Cookbook Project V: America’s Dim Sum Pioneer

Henry Chan is a man with a vision. He envisioned a dim sum restaurant in the United States with impeccable service, a refined atmosphere and clean bathrooms. And eventually, after a great deal of family drama between he and his father, he managed to turn Yank Sing, the restaurant his beloved mother, Alice Chan, started […]

Cookbooks!

A small portion of my cookbook library, including most of the Asian cookbooks. And so, Steph over at Da*xiang tapped me with this meme about cookbooks that seems to be floating about the food blogosphere, and like the good sport that I am, I decided to answer the questions, and in fact, even post a […]

The Chinese Cookbook Project III: With an Open Mind and an Open Mouth

How to Cook and Eat in Chinese by Buwei Yang Chao One book that is mentioned as being a seminal Chinese cookbook written in English is Buwei Yang Chao’s How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, first published in 1945. This is with good reason; it is often cited as the first attempt to present […]

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