Calvin Lee's Chinese Cooking for American Kitchens
Rating
Exhibition Title
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
Title
Calvin Lee's Chinese Cooking for American Kitchens
Author
Lee , Calvin
Description
190pp., 21.5x14.5cm., hardbound
Imprint
G.P . Putnam's Sons
City
New York
State
New York
Date
1958
Date.Digital
2009
Format
Monograph
Subject
Cookery , Chinese .
Resource Type
Electronic/Text
Abstract
This book has one hundred fifty recipes with ingredients listed in single narrative paragraphs . Recipe titles are: Appetizers , Pastries and Desserts ; Soups ; Seafood ; Poultry ; Meat ; Vegetables ; Eggs ; and Rice and Noodle Dishes . Before the recipes there is a foreword by Mary Margaret McBride and a preface by Poppy Cannon . Five chapters are titled : Chinese Food and Culture ; Chinese Food Comes to America ; Americans in Chinatown ; Bringing China into Your Home ; and Serving Chinese . There are also Seven pages are about tea . The index lists food by category . A few black and white line drawings accompany the text , all by Mabel Wong Lilienstein , who illustrated this volume . The author is third generation owner of the oldest Chinese restaurant in New York City at Mott and Pell Streets .
Language
EN
Exhibit Curator
Kristen J. Nyitray, Head, Special Collections and University Archives
Contributors
Kerri Tinucci, Intern, Spring 2009; Jason Torre, University Archivist
Original Owner Information
Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection
Finding Aid
http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/newman.shtml
Web Link
http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/
System Number
000001458
File Name (Identifier)
000001458.tif ; 28.tif
Digital Format
JP2
File Size
1367.015 KB
Format.Creation
This JPEG 2000 image was created by students using in-house equipment to generate master images captured at 400 dpi, 24 bit, color setting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software operating on a Dell Optiplex desktop personal computer running Windows XP.
Tag
Newman collection
Image Height
2508
Image Width
1704
Colorspace
RGB
Checksum
0x4C1412F2
Rights
All rights reserved by the author.
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