Chinese Festive Board, The
Rating
Exhibition Title
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
Title
Chinese Festive Board , The
Author
Lamb , Corrinne
Description
153pp., 19.6x13.5cm., hardbound
Imprint
Henry Vetch
City
Peiping
State
China
Date
1935
Date.Digital
2009
Format
Monograph
Subject
Cookery , Chinese .
Resource Type
Electronic/Text
Abstract
This book has fifty recipes with the ingredients listed . The recipe names are in English , Chinese , and romanized Cantonese , and a pronunciation guide is included for the reader . Before the recipes , there are forty pages about Chinese meals , table etiquette , and illustratations of proper chopstick usage . The recipes include a dinner party with a suggested menu and a red-paper dinner invitation in Chinese pasted into the book , as well as party games and drawings of a common finger game . Before each recipe there is a paragraph titled : "Description. " This "Description " appears after each ingredient list and before the method , and includes information about about culture and cuisine . The chapters are separated by a page of proverbs . After the recipes the reader is provided with approximate price of the meals and an explaination or how-to on ordering a Chinese meal . There are two-hundred-sixty recipe names listed . Also included is a Romanized Chinese and English dictionary of four-hundred-twenty-four foods and additional proverbs about the Chinese lifestyle and foods . The book is illustrated by John Kirk Sewall and came with a paper cover with caricatured drawing of a Chinese banquet table .
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
000001043
File Name (Identifier)
000001043.tif ; 95.tif
Digital Format
JP2
File Size
978.029 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
2292
Image Width
1494
Colorspace
RGB
Checksum
0xC7306E2
Rights
All rights reserved by the author.
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