A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era as Seen in Hu Sihui's Yinshan Zhengyao: Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Chin

by Eugene Anderson

In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his Yinshan Zhengyao, a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore including selections from ancient texts, and thus reveals to us the full extent of an amazing cross-cultural dietary; here recipes can be found from as far...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004180206
• ISBN13: 9789004180208
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.8" x 9.6"