The Chinese Chicken Cookbook: 100 Easy-To-Prepare, Authentic Recipes for the American Table

by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Book Overview

In China the chicken represents the phoenix, the mythological bird that rose from its ashes and that symbolizes rebirth and reaffirmation. Because of this deeply held belief, chicken is served at every New Year celebration, every wedding feast, and every birthday dinner. The chicken is honored for its eggs, its meat, and the flavor it provides for stocks and broths. Because of the reverence for this bird, the Chinese prepare chicken in myriad ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743233417
• ISBN13: 9780743233415
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Another excellent cookbook

Many of the recipes require a dutch oven and a boning knife (for meat from the chicken leg). There are over 100 recipes including stir fry dishes with melons. I am particularly happy to find recipes for steamed chicken buns including the bun dough recipe and street dumplings that "were created by refugees from Shanghai who fled their city in the 1950s revolution and came to Hong Kong. They would set up portable charcoal or coal stoves in the streets and make these dumplings for people to lunch on. Later, many of these entrepreneurs went on to open restaurants." I am collecting all of the author's titles as much for her old fashioned style as for her recipes. She makes me want to make my own pasta. In my opinion, acquiring all of the author's cookbooks first before buying the other English language Chinese cookbooks makes an important foundation to understanding what you eat in America and how the food is cooked at home. Then proceed to the other cookbooks and hopefully to eating the more elaborate levels of Chinese cooking. I didn't pick up the author's cookbooks until very recently and only after learning that the author is from Sun Tak. I wish I had bought her books long ago.