Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood: 150 Delicious Chinese Recipes for Today's American Table
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Exhibition Title
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
Title
Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood : 150 Delicious Chinese Recipes for Today's American Table
Author
Hom , Ken
Description
321pp., 24.2x17.5cm., hardbound
Imprint
Alfred A. Knopf
City
New York
State
New York
Date
1997
Date.Digital
2009
Format
Monograph
ISBN
0394587588
Subject
Cookery , Chinese .
Subject 2
Cookery, American.
Resource Type
Electronic/Text
Abstract
This book has one-hundred-thirty-nine recipes written in standard cookbook style . Chapter titles are: Soups ; Fish and Shellfish ; Poultry ; Eggs ; Meat ; Rice and Noodles ; Vegetables ; and A Few Desserts . Before the recipes , there is a single page of acknowledgments and nineteen pages about author's childhood and Chinese-American cuisine . Includes photographs of the author , his family , and his friends . There are seven pages about five cutting techniques and the use and care of a wok are also included . There are twelve pages titled : "Chinese Larder describe twenty-five ingredients. " After the recipes , there is a five page bibliography of eighty-three cookery books and other background materials . Contains a fifteen page , two column cross-referenced idex . There are many black and white line drawings by Emily Lisker . The illustrations and author's personal memories depict the role of food at the center of author's family life when growing up as a Chinese-American in the Unites States . This title was published by Taurom , a Ken Hom corporation .
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
000000777
File Name (Identifier)
000000777.tif ; 97.tif
Digital Format
JP2
File Size
1598.479 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
2831
Image Width
2030
Colorspace
RGB
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0xC5A55945
Rights
All rights reserved by the author.
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