Every Grain of Rice
Rating
Exhibition Title
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
Title
Every Grain of Rice
Author
Blonder , Ellen
Author 2
Low, Annabel
Description
208pp., 23.5x19.5cm., hardbound
Imprint
Clarkson Potter
City
New York
State
New York
Date
1998
Date.Digital
2009
Format
Monograph
ISBN
0609601024
Subject
Cookery , Chinese .
Subject 2
Chinese American families.
Resource Type
Electronic/Text
Abstract
This book has ninety-three recipes . Chapter titles include : Comfort in a Bowl ; Soup and Jook ; Rice and Noodles ; Dim Sum ; Garden Fresh : Vegetables , Fish and Seafood ; Chop Chop : Poultry , Pork and Beef ; Bearing Gifts : Holidays and Family Celebrations ; and Sweets . Before the recipes , there is information about topics such as presents , jook , jeng , noise , preserving traditions , the Hong Kong Cafe oned by Annabel's father , and tales of chopsticks . Each chapter is written by one or both authors . After the recipes , there is menu information with eight suggested menus . There is a discussion of fourteen equipment items and eight cooking techniques follows . Included is a ten page , eighty-four ingredient glossary , and three pages of cross-referenced index . Included is a chart for solid , liquid , and oven temperatures . Considerable information is given about the authors ' parents , siblings and extended Chinese-American family in this book by an aunt and niece born sixteen days apart , who wrote it to pass food and cultural remembrances to their own children . Watercolor illustrations on cover and throughout are by Blonder , a designer and illustrator of books , dinnerware , and textiles . Chinese transliterations are in their parents native Lungdu dialect .
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
000000109
File Name (Identifier)
000000109.tif ; 96.tif
Digital Format
JP2
File Size
1616.433 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
2766
Image Width
2268
Colorspace
RGB
Checksum
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Rights
All rights reserved by the author.
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