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Title: Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook by Gloria Bley Miller, Earl Thollander ISBN: 0-399-12835-2 Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kindling for a firestorm of Chinese cooking creativity
Comment: I purchased my own copy of this wonderful cookbook after a friend lent me hers, and I realized I couldn't live without it! Yes, it's really that good.
The real power and utility of this cookbook lies not in its 1,000 recipes (which is a claim I suspect is true, though I've not actually counted them). The real value here is that Miller takes the time to present the basics, and then encourages improvisation and creativity.
So, for example, while there are dozens of recipes for stir-fried chicken with all manner of vegetable combinations, the reality is that you could do with just one or two of them. Then, just follow the insights presented on prep and cooking time requirements for specific vegetables in the wok, perhaps follow some of her suggested combinations, and then have a ball using what you happen to have on-hand, what's cheap, or what's in-season.
For having 1,000 recipes in it, notably absent are some of the popular (perhaps "Americanized") recipes you might find in the typical Chinese restaurant. For example, there's no cashew chicken to be found. But here again, find something close, and do your own thing... Just prepare the chicken and peanuts, use cashews instead, and while you're at it, make your own picks for veggies to go in the dish (or duplicate what your favorite restaurant happens to throw in).
This is bound to be one of those cookbooks that shows as evidence of its utility numerous stains of soy sauce and other ingredients on its pages...
Rating: 4
Summary: Good reference book of the most common dishes
Comment: I am a first generation chinese-american and love cooking. I bought the book hoping to get a good reference book. I do most of the cooking and was hoping there would be some of the more exotic dishes. The book provides a solid basis for beginners, but it doesn't contain regional dishes that one can find in china town in SF or monterey park in CA. If you're looking for taiwanese, cantonese or schzwan favorites, they're not in this book.
But then again, those dishes (dan dan mien, da bien, wonton noodle soup) are not typically served at your local chinese restaurant outside of CA or NY. If you're looking for an introduction to chinese cooking and don't particularly care to adventure into the exotic regional dishes, this book will serve you well. If you're a food nut like me, it will serve as a nice reference. If you want cookbooks that cover regional recipes, look at your local asian marke, they may have chinese cookbooks which also have english.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not very usefull
Comment: This book is a little overwhelming and a little underwhelming at the same time. Unless you seriously want to really dive in and spend all your cooking time learning Chineese cooking, the 1000 recipies are simply just far too many. It was difficult to decide which recipies to try as often there are a dozen that are essentially all the same with one ingredient different. In the end, the ones I did pick were not bad but also not particulary exciting or interesting.
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Title: The Classic 1,000 Chinese Recipes by Wendy Hobson ISBN: 0572017839 Publisher: Foulsham & Co Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: DK Living: Yan-Kit's Classic Chinese Cookbook by Yan-Kit So, Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789433001 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ken Hom's Foolproof Chinese Cooking by Ken Hom ISBN: 0789471450 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan ISBN: 039458404X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Singaporean, Malaysian & Indonesian Cuisine by Christina Sjahir Hwang, Wei-Chuan Publishing ISBN: 094167682X Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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