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Cooking Books -> Vegetarian
From the Earth: Chinese Vegetarian Cooking
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by:
Lo, Eileen Yin-Fei
Yin-Feilo, Eileen
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Publisher:
Hungry Minds, Inc
Published: April 1995
ISBN: 0026329859
Format:Hardcover
Pages:326
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Book Description
From Library Journal
Yin-Fei Lo, an authority on Chinese cooking and author of several other cookbooks, presents dozens of delicious and unusual Chinese vegetarian dishes. Some are recipes from her childhood and family, others are the "real" versions
of dishes served in Chinese American recipes, and still others are her versions of classic dishes or her own innovations, often using ingredients not traditionally available in China. The readable headnotes give a good sense of the symbolism inherent in
all of Chinese cooking, and a special chapter is devoted to the vegetarian dishes created in Buddhist temple kitchens. Highly recommended.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The culinary tidbits that Lo includes in
her salute to earth foods are almost as intriguing as her more than 200 mainly vegetable recipes. Vegetarian Buddhists may eat only three types of seafood--mussels, claims, and oysters. The turnip cakes enjoyed at the Lunar New Year are a symbol that
good fortune is rising, and so on. She insists on and explains the gathering together of the right stuff and learning the right techniques; a carbon-steel wok and cleaver, for example, are the two critical... read more
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