Asian Cooking

Chinese Recipes New and Traditional

Chinese Recipes New and Traditional is a cookbook that we think you will find both useful and practical, filled with recipes, which will become part of your every day meal planning. Many feature stir-frying, a traditional Chinese technique that will put a meal on your table quickly, with delicious results. This technique requires planning and preparation with the …

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American Chinese Cuisine: Classic Americanized Adaptations of Chinese Recipes

American Chinese cuisine brings you a style of Chinese cuisine developed by Americans of Chinese descent who were brought over to work as railroad workers or miners during the California gold rush. The dishes served in many North American Chinese restaurants are adapted to American tastes and often differ significantly from those found in China. Of the various …

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Favourite Snacks from Singapore: with video links

Do you have a craving for Singapore snack food – Bak Kwa, Curry Puff, Pineapple Tart, Pulot Enti, Carrot Cake, Peanut Pancake, BBQ Pork Puff, Yam Cake, Fried Sesame Ball or Steamed Sponge Cake? Making them at home is easy if you know how. Choy’s Kitchen Adventures share their most popular snack food recipes in this handy ebook, …

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The Chinese Cook Book: One Hundred Chinese Recipes

This special edition of ‘The Chinese Cook Book’ was written by Shiu Wong Chan, and first published in 1917, making in a century old. This incredible old Chinese cookbook is jam-packed with traditional recipes for all sorts of dishes, some you’ll be familiar with, and some you might never have heard of, like Chicken Mushroom Soup, Green Pepper …

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Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race (Exploded Views)

Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown …

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Indian Instant Pot® Cookbook: Traditional Indian Dishes Made Easy and Fast

From the publisher of the bestselling cookbooks Instant Pot Obsession and The Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook comes the first authorized Instant Pot cookbook for Indian cooking at home. It’s tempting to dine out when you think about the endless steps and ingredients that it takes to make traditional dals and curries. Just ask …

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The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire’s quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned …

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