Cooking with the Chinese Flavour; Drawings by Siu Lan Loh
London: HEINEMANN, 1957. First British Edition. Hardcover. 215 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. This mother/daughter team brought their knowledge of an unfamiliar cuisine to their new home, America - "The present book is strictly the record of a family's cooking experience, handed down from a Chines mother to her daughter, embodying the results of some twenty years of home cooking away from China...Chinese cooks have always tried to adapt the method of preparation to the food, and not the food to the method." Preface is written by Lin Yutang (husband/father) - writer, linguist, and inventor. Interior lightly tone. Covers clean. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed at edges with small closed tear to head of spine. Covered in protective mylar. Blue cloth covered boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. Item #5131
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