Secrets Of Chinese Nutrition: 168 Traditional Delicious & Health Giving Recipes

Description

This is the much-awaited revised edition - complete with a fresh design and more enticing food photography - of a book that has found a place in the canon of Singapore cookbooks. Its clear and easy-to-follow recipes produce delicious and fortifying Chinese food based on principles that date back 4,000 years. It shares how the basic techniques of stir-frying, steaming, simmering, double-boiling and stewing coaxes the best from choice and humble ingredients to produce nutritional dishes suitable for every-day meals and banquets. The key of this book is the Chinese belief that food is eaten not just to fuel the body, please the palate and satisfy the soul, but also eaten to promote good health. It is therefore a practical guide to eating nutritional food and maintaining good health the Chinese way.

Author description

Ng Siong Mui came from a line of famous restauranteurs and married into one of Singapore's leading herbalist families. She augmented this rich heritage with over 30 years of research into ancient Chinese health concepts. Her other outstanding cookbooks in the series - The Chinese Pregnancy and Confinement Cookbook, and Nutritious Chinese Food for Infants, Children and Youth are in the process of being revised. She is also the author of Traditional Chinese Brews & Remedies.