Synopses & Reviews
Award-winning cookbook author and celebrated food expert Eileen Yin-Fei Lo learned how to cook from her talented grandmother. This inspiring and instructive book collects 100 recipes the author learned in her grandmother's kitchen, along with the life lessons, observations, and other gifts she hopes to pass on to readers and future generations.
Cherished holiday recipes include steamed buns and fish congees for birthdays, vegetables prepared during the Lunar New Year, and rice dumplings made for the Dragon Boat Festival. All the essential techniques of the Chinese kitchen are represented, including stir-frying, steaming, roasting, stewing, braising, and more.
A volume to cook from, to share, and to read as a memoir in its own right, My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen celebrates a great culinary tradition by sharing family wisdom and timeless recipes.
Synopsis
An award-winning food expert collects one hundred recipes learned by the author from her grandmother, in a volume that includes a wealth of options for Chinese holidays and outlines specific cooking techniques, from stir-frying and steaming to braising and stewing. 25,000 first printing.
About the Author
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo is the author of nine previous Chinese cookbooks. She has written about Chinese cooking for the New York Times, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and Travel & Leisure, and has taught Chinese cooking for more than 20 years. She is married to Gourmet columnist Fred Feretti.