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"The only thing better than having Eileen Lo cook for you is having her teach you how. She takes you on an incredible journey as you build your Chinese pantry and master the basics. Eileen carefully explains the steps of every important Chinese cooking technique, while also communicating a profound respect for flavors. She is the Chinese godmother every chef wishes he had." Daniel Boulud, Chef-Owner, Daniel, Caf Boulud, DB Bistro Moderne, Bar Boulud, DBGB Kitchen and Bar
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This new masterwork of Chinese cuisine showcases acclaimed chef Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's decades of culinary virtuosity. A series of lessons build skill, knowledge, and confidence as Lo guides the home cook step by step through the techniques, ingredients, and equipment that define Chinese cuisine. With more than 100 classic recipes and technique illustrations throughout,'Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking' makes the glories of this ancient cuisine utterly accessible. Stunning color photography reveals the treasures of old and new China, from the zigzagging alleys of historical Guangzhou to the bustle of city centers and faraway Chinatowns, as well as wonderful ingredients and gorgeous finished dishes. Step-by-step brush drawings illustrate Chinese cooking techniques. This lavish volume takes its place as the Chinese cookbook of choice in the cook's library.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A real course on chinese cooking contained in a book,
By Mylène Bergeron Francoeur "Mongol Chef" (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Mastering the Art Of Chinese Cooking (Hardcover)
Be prepared. This book will take you for a very exotic journey through the ancient and wonderful art that is chinese cuisine.The book is divided in 3 sections, ranging from easiest to hardest. Section 1: Lesson 1 will show you how to stock your pantry with staple chinese ingredients. It also showcase specific cooking equipment chinese cooking will usually use. Once you've got the ingredients, lesson 2 to 9 will show you how to make the bases for many dishes: stocks, rice and oils. You'll learn along the way proper stir frying, steaming, poaching in a wok, cooking in a pot, barbecue, how to make soups and to use up all those different noodles. Section 2: Again more ingredients. Learn to make more basics of the chinese cuisine. Learn about chinese bread. How to cook in a sand clay pot. Rice and all it's declinaisons. Specific regionnal diversity from north to south china. Section 3: More basics to have in your kitchen ! Tea in cooking, vegetable dishes, more regionnal cuisine, sweets in chinese cuisine, how to create menus the chinese way and the final lesson is on how to serve wines with the food you'll have cooked. Now my opinion: if need be of only ONE book on the topic of chinese cuisine, THIS IS IT ! The book is filled with information, techniques (with illustrations), tips, amazing recipes, with amazing pictures ! It covers every aspect of the cuisne. The book is no small one either, it's a large book, but you will appreciate all the contents it allowed the author to put in. If you're serious about your cuisine, and you'd love to dive into something more exotic, don't hesitate and buy this now ! Most of the recipes will get you salivating just over the name. Forget here about garlic spare-ribs, this is the REAL THING. The chinese characters also helps in finding the right ingredient under those obscure looking chinese characters. It also showed me what to do with my cleaver, which I had never used before and I absolutly LOVE IT now ! Again, this book is simply STELLAR, a must get for any serious cook !
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4.3 out of 5 stars (17 customer reviews) 45 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Authentic Chinese Cuisine,
By Eilie - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mastering the Art Of Chinese Cooking (Hardcover)
This cookbook, like most of Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's cookbooks, is focused on authentic Chinese cuisine and is not a Chinese takeout cookbook. As the book does not cut corners, it includes the presence of some Chinese ingredients which may be difficult to find outside an Asian supermarket. For example, the cookbook includes a number of recipes which would be considered banquet or special occasion foods and include ingredients such as Shark's Fin and Bird's Nest. Nevertheless, this book does include a number of everyday recipes such as Ma Po Tofu and Hunan Hot and Spicy Shrimp, which can be made after a trip to the Asian foods aisle of most supermarkets, and provides useful recipes for Chinese sauces, such as XO sauce, which are usually purchased prepared. This cookbook is definitely geared toward people who are more accustomed to traditional Chinese cooking or are interested in how Chinese food is outside the local takeout place. Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking includes a number of beautiful pictures of the prepared food and provides a taste of what Chinese home cooking can really be like.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, but probably not for the beginning chef who's learning how to make spagetti.,
By Serena Wu - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mastering the Art Of Chinese Cooking (Hardcover)
I've been using this book for a month now, and I really enjoy it. Asian food in general can be intimidating because it requires ingredients that are almost impossible to find if you don't have access to an ethnic grocery or aren't willing to order some of the staples off the internet. I live in San Francisco and have access to both great Chinese stores and a lot of live produce both in italian markets and in Chinatown and this book has really helped me use obscure ingredients that otherwise I wouldn't know what to do with. And the receipes are REALLY GOOD.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
My holy grail traditional chinese cookbook,
By Rudy L. - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mastering the Art Of Chinese Cooking (Hardcover)
First, she had me at shark's fin soup. I ordered this book and expecting elaborate chinese dishes and the author delivered. There were dishes that I was so excited to see and just cannot put the book down. The author does not take short cuts in any of her dishes. Though you may find some recipes that you can make on a typical weekday, there are also recipes that you may want to make on special occasions as well, such as Chinese New Year. For example, she shares the techniques on how to cook abalone, bird's nest, and she even shares recipes on the most popular dim sum dishes - the shrimp dumpling! I would say that if you enjoy cooking, you should want to at least have the knowledge of how to start from scratch. This book shares many recipes that I've always dreamed of learning. I'm glad I found this book!!!
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