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The Key to Chinese Cooking

by Irene Kuo

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Discover the fundamental techniques and methods of Chinese cooking. This welcoming novice’s guide teaches the four major methods of Chinese cuisine through easy-to-follow beginner’s recipes and offers over 300 authentic Chinese dishes for foreign cooks to try. Enjoy fresh, delicious Chinese meals right at home!

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Analyses of and explicit instruction in the fundamental techniques of Chinese cooking are followed by more than three hundred recipes for simple and exotic, traditional and original main and side dishes

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Original Publisher
Knopf
Date of publication
1977
ISBN
0394496388

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Ken Hom

Chef

This is probably the best cookbook ever that really explains the essence and soul of Chinese food and cooking. It is written on a level that I aspire to when I write cookery books.

Brandon Jew

Chef/owner, Mister Jiu; San Francisco, CA

Jonathan White

China-based food writer

Anne Mendelson

Author and editor

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