Happy Chinese New Year! The Boston Globe’s food section this week has a number of fun features for our favorite noise-making, confetti-strewn, street-fair holiday. I was called on at the last minute for a Chinese cookbook review, which I was happy to attempt even though I have bemoaned the recent scarcity of Chinese cookbooks. We scrambled to find a book and found Ching’s Everyday Easy Chinese, which features British-based Cooking Channel star Ching-He Huang.
Although the book could be more forthcoming in its particulars, for the most part I was happily surprised. These are easy-to-like, simple-to-prepare dishes that seek to entertain more than educate. It’s not necessarily a must-have for your overflowing cookbook shelves, but overall I’d consider it a good value.
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January 31, 2012 at 5:54 pm
commonweeder
Happy New Year! This past weekend the Heath Gourmet Club (30 years of serving ourselves) celebrated with a magnificent feast – lacking only jiaozi. I used Irene Kuo’s Key To Chinese Cooking which is the standby Chinese cookbook at our house, but I also used Nina Simonds China Express. I brought four vegetable dishes, garlic broccoli, hot and sour bok choy, stirfried shredded radish salad, and stir-fried shredded cabbage with carrots. The other dishes are too numerous to mention here. I am always glad to know of a good new cookbook. Glad Tinky sent me to your blog.