Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cookbook: 101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen

You know what a treat it is when you are invited over for dinner by a friend that is a really good cook? Katie Chin has written the cookbook form of that invite. Her book starts out with a sort of 101-level class of understanding Chinese ingredients and techniques, which should be a great help to the beginning Chinese cook and a good reminder to the more experienced cook who may not cook Chinese very often. Chin’s recipes are based on her mother’s recipes, the award-winning restaurateur Leeann Chin. Many recipes include close-up photos of the cooking process, so it’s a little like watching Katie cook. These are the types of recipes seen in Chinese restaurants across America, but with the Chin family stamp of approval, making them a touch more authentic but still approachable for the general American palate. Recommended By Tracey T., Powells.com

Home chefs will enjoy preparing these Chinese home cooking-inspired dishes with this easy-to-follow Chinese cookbook.

Author Katie Chin's love of cooking blossomed at an early age—watching and later helping her renowned mother, Leeann Chin, prepare delicious Chinese dishes in her popular restaurants. Born in China, Leeann was an award-winning restaurateur and author revered for her ability to demystify Chinese cooking for the American home chef. Katie inherited her mom's passion and talent, and has become a respected food writer and television personality in her own right. Sadly, Leeann passed away in 2010, but her recipes live on. Katie is eager to share her mother's food legacy with you in this book—an homage to Leeann's mastery of all that Chinese cooking has to offer.

This treasury of family recipes includes many unique dishes that Leeann developed during a six-decade career in the food business, including time-honored classics that she herself learned from her mother in China. Some dishes reflect Leeann's Chinese-American childhood or are recipes which Katie and Leeann developed while together. Others are creations that Katie has developed more recently. Woven throughout the book are fond memories and anecdotes from Katie's childhood, always involving cooking and eating with her mom.

Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cooking is a celebration of Leeann Chin's amazing mastery of the complete array of flavors and techniques in Chinese cuisine, and her unique ability to make them accessible to Westerners. Katie provides tips and techniques which allow anyone to create a refined and tasty Chinese meal at home.

Favorite Chinese recipes include:

•Firecracker Shrimp
•Mu Shu Pork
•Peking Duck Summer Rolls
•General Tso's Chicken
•Tangerine Beef
•Hoisin Lacquered Ribs
•Tea-Smoked Sea Bass
•Banana Wontons
•Five Spice Chocolate Cake
•And many more…

Let yourself be inspired by the exquisite flavors of Leeann and Katie Chin's signature Chinese cuisine!

"Katie Chin has done us all a huge favor: she's provided us with recipes for so many of the Chinese dishes we always wanted to cook but have never had clear and easy instructions to prepare…Thank you Katie Chin!" Martha Stewart

"I love Asian cuisines of all flavors, ingredients and techniques. And Katie Chin delivers once again with this new cookbook. Her love and passion for her heritage comes through, proud and delicious. She will guide you through these inspired dishes from her mother, taking you on a tour of the most authentic Chinese flavors without leaving your own kitchen." Iron Chef Cat Cora, Author, lifestyle entrepreneur and founder of Chefs For Humanity

"I can think of no tribute more fitting to my mentor Leeann Chin than a published collection of her favorite recipes. Leeann was a visionary and a pioneer in popularizing Chinese cooking in America. She was also one of the culinary icons who inspired me to enter the profession. A thousand thanks to Katie, for allowing the world to remember our good friend Leeann through her best dishes." Chef Martin Yan, Host of "Yan Can Cook," Owner/Chef of M.Y. China Restaurant, San Francisco

"Filled with nostalgic family memories and simple-to-prepare Chinese recipes, this book is so much more than delicious food that you can make at home. It's for anyone who enjoys Chinese food and heartwarming storytelling." Bee Yinn Low, Author of Easy Chinese Recipes and Easy Asian Takeout, and owner of RasaMalaysia.com

"Katie Chin brings us into her Chinese-American kitchen and makes our mouths water with recipes that beg to be cooked and shared. She writes with warmth and enthusiasm, and best of all enormous love and respect for her one-of-a-kind mother, who taught Katie everything she knows about authentic, simple, fresh Chinese cooking." Katie Workman, author of Dinner Solved! and The Mom 100 Cookbook

Katie Chin was born and raised in Minneapolis by her award-winning restaurateur mother, Leeann Chin. She is the co-author of Everyday Chinese Cooking (Clarkson Potter, 2000) and author of 300 Best Rice Cooker Recipes and Everyday Thai Cooking. She was co-host with her mother, Leeann, of the 2003 national PBS cooking series Double Happiness. Katie has made numerous appearances on The Today Show and has appeared in specials on The Food Network and Fine Living. She has been featured in Glamour, Family Circle, Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, Self Magazine, Angeleno Magazine, Hampton Magazine, Elle Magazine, Daily Candy, Daily Variety, Real Simple and The Los Angeles Times. Katie has served as a guest judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America and appeared on Cooking Channel's Food(ography) program in 2013. When not testing out her new recipes on family and friends, she divides her time as a private chef and culinary consultant. Katie has been called the "Asian Rachel Ray" by many of her fans because of her sparkling personality and approachable style.

Foreword-Writer, Raghavan Iyer, is an IACP Award–winning Teacher of the Year, and author of 660 Curries, Betty Crocker's Indian Home Cooking, and the James Beard Award Finalist The Turmeric Trail: Recipes and Memories from an Indian Childhood. He is also a spokesperson and consultant to General Mills, Target, and other companies.