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A Spoonful of Ginger : Irresistible Health-Giving Recipes from Asian Kitchens
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by:
Simonds, Nina (Introduction)
Da Costa, Beatriz (Photographer)
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Publisher:
Knopf
Published: April 1999
ISBN: 0375400362
Format:Hardcover
Pages:336
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Book Description
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Part cookbook, part primer of Chinese medicine, Nina Simonds's A Spoonful of Ginger offers dietary advice, herbal home remedies, and lively, unintimidating Asian recipes for the American home cook. Try Braised Duck with Tangerine Peel and
Sweet Potato as a cure for high blood pressure. Baked Black Bean Shrimp might be just the dish to get you over that bout of depression. Simonds presents the ailing reader with concoctions to relieve everything from hangovers to frostbite.
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lovers of fine food need not despair--medical advice is kept brief, presumably to make room for more delicious recipes. For example, Steamed Fish with Black Mushrooms and Prosciutto makes no claims to cure anything but hunger. And any volume on health
food that features a substantial section on pork (check out Spicy Pork Tenderloin with Leeks and Fennel) can hardly be called austere or old-fashioned. With tastes from all over Asia represented, from Indian curries to Japanese miso, these 200 dishes are
tasty riffs on Chinese themes that should cure even the most jaded of palates. --David Kalil
From Publishers Weekly
Diverging from what she believes is the Western tendency to regard food as the "enemy," Asian food authority Simonds (Classic
Chinese Cuisine; Asian Noodles) has compiled a cookbook espousing the Asian holistic philosophy of food as a "nurturing, benevolent friend that maintains and restores health." Simonds describes the Chinese holistic approach to food and eating as one that
is in sync with the seasons, matched to individual body type and specific developmental periods (infancy through mature... read more
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