The Chinese Cookbook Project II: This Little Book

Surrounded by maneki neko, and shown with a pair of chopsticks in order to give a sense of scale, is Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna’s Chinese-Japanese Cookbook. Earlier in this blog, I wrote about how I acquired a copy of Chinese-Japanese Cookbook by Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna, published by Rand McNally in 1914. What […]

Book Review: Land of Plenty

Land of PlentyFuchsia Dunlop2001 Fuchsia Dunlop is an amazing woman. For one thing, she is the only non-Chinese female graduate of the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in Chengdu, China. For another thing, she managed to write down the recipes for most of the dishes that Huy used to make at The China Garden for […]

The Chinese Cookbook Project

The beginnings of the Chinese Cookbook Project It all started with my daughter. She wanted to learn to cook Chinese food. And she wanted a wok and a rice cooker of her very own for Generic Winter Holiday. Now, if she lived with me, all of this would be much simpler. She wouldn’t need her […]

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