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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The obsessive mastermind behind one of the decade's best-selling cookbooks returns with the definitive English-language guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok. J. Kenji López-Alt's debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionized home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods. And for fast, fresh cooking for his family, there's one pan López-Alt reaches for more than any other:...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother's...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
An exploration of techniques and ingredients key to the Jiangnan kitchen collects recipes for dishes that celebrate the culinary delights of the Yangtze region, featuring such dishes as clear-steamed sea bass, fresh soybeans with pickled greens, and dingpo pork.
Author
Series
Amy Wu volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The family behind the acclaimed blog The Woks of Life shares 100 of their favorite home-cooked and restaurant-style Chinese recipes. While briefly living on different continents, Judy, Bill, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung created the beloved blog The Woks of Life to document their family's history and traditions through food. Now, in their first cookbook, they present an in-depth and unique approach to the Chinese table with stories and recipes from each...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Acclaimed author Cathy Erway offers an insider's look at Taiwanese cooking-from home-style dishes to authentic street food While certain dishes from Taiwan are immensely popular, like steamed buns and bubble tea, the cuisine still remains relatively unknown in America. In The Food of Taiwan, Taiwanese-American Cathy Erway, the acclaimed blogger and author of The Art of Eating In, gives readers an insider's look at Taiwanese cooking with almost 100...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"An eye-opening and soul-nourishing journey through Chinese food around the world. From Cape Town, South Africa, to small-town Saskatchewan, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural outposts of far-flung settlers, bringers of dim sum, Peking duck and creative culinary hybrids, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of greater social forces. They are an insight into time, history, and place....
17) Measuring up
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má’s, seventieth birthday together. Since she can’t go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids’ cooking contest to pay for A-má’s plane ticket! There’s just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. And after her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
Jocelyn Wu wants to make it through junior year without dying of boredom; to direct a short film with her BFF Priya Venkatram; and to get at least two months into the year without being compared to or confused with Peggy Chang, the only other Chinese girl in her grade. Will Domenici has two goals: to find a paying...
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The story of Rapunzel where she's being locked in a tower by a witch is a good one--but it's not totally the truth. The real story is about a young princess in China named Ra Pu Zel who doesn't want to talk to princes or look proper. What Pu Zel wants is to cook and eat in peace, her long hair neatly braided to keep it out of her food. And when she gets tired of everyone telling her what to do, she locks herself in a tower with her dog Bao. Although...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Today is Sunday and that means its dim sum time with my whole family! I can't wait to see everyone, especially Grandma. I'm going to eat lots of shrimp dumplings, rice noodle rolls, egg tarts, and my favorite--char siu buns. We will have to order enough for us all to share. So what are you waiting for? Dim sum, here we come!"--