My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons
Rating
Exhibition Title
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
Title
My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen : 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons
Author
Lo , Eileen Yin-Fei
Author 2
Wong, San Yan
Description
277 pp., 24.2x19.6cm., hardbound
Imprint
Home Book-Penguin Group
City
New York
State
New York
Date
2006
Date.Digital
2009
Format
Monograph
ISBN
1557885052
Subject
Cookery , Chinese .
Resource Type
Electronic/Text
Abstract
this book has one hundred four recipes written in standard style . Recipe chapter titles include : My Grandmother , My Teacher ; To the Market ; In the Garden ; From Pond and River ; Into the Lunar New Year ; The Lantern Festival : Dining with the Nuns ; Family Feasts and Folklore Festivals ; From Grandmother's House ; To My Kitchen . Before the recipes , there are five pages about the author's grandmother . Every chapter begins with several pages about the author's Grandmother as well . After the recipes , there is a sixteen page glossary called : Foods of My Chinese Kitchen : Ingredient Notes from A to Z explaining fifty-seven food items , each with its Chinese ideograph . The afterword is by Fred Ferretti , the author's husband . Included is a seven page , three column , cross-referenced Index . There is a single page about the author . The book is a memoir with many family photographs interspersed .
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
000002748
File Name (Identifier)
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Digital Format
JP2
File Size
1955.88 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
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2292
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Rights
All rights reserved by the author.
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