Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, The
Rating
Exhibition Title
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
Title
Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook , The
Author
Miller , Gloria Bley
Description
927pp., 26x18.3cm., hardbound
Imprint
Atheneum
City
New York
State
New York
Date
1966
Date.Digital
2009
Format
Monograph
Subject
Cookery , Chinese .
Resource Type
Electronic/Text
Abstract
This book contains one thousand recipes written in standard style . The recipe chapter titles include : Soups ; Appetizers and Cold Dishes ; Pork ; Beef ; Duck ; Chicken and Other Poultry ; Fish ; Other Seafood ; Egg Dishes ; Vegetable Dishes ; Noodle and Rice Dishes ; Egg Rolls and Wontons ; Seasonings and Sauces ; Sweet Dishes ; Firepot and Other Do-It-Yourself Cooking ; and Banquet Dishes . Before the recipes , there are sixty one pages about the Chinese diet , food as art , Chinese cooking , regional variations , eleven cooking techniques , cleavers and cutting methods , kitchen equipment , stock , rice , and tea . After the recipes , there are more than a hundred pages about meal preparation , service , and table settings , chopstick use , and more than one hundred suggested menus for groups of various sizes . Includes an extensive how-to section about stir-frying , information on teas and wines , food substitutions , storage suggestions of individual ingredients . Included is a twenty-nine page glossary of two-hundred-eighty-one ingredients , English and romanized Cantonese food list , and mail-order sources . There is a thirty-four page , two column , cross-referenced index . Accented with many black and white illustrations , all by Earl Thollander .
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
000001858
File Name (Identifier)
000001858.tif ; 47.tif
Digital Format
JP2
File Size
2170.159 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
3024
Image Width
2148
Colorspace
RGB
Checksum
0x5A19503A
Rights
All rights reserved by the author.
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