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The Food of Taiwan: Recipes from the Beautiful Island
Cathy Erway
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Description for The Food of Taiwan: Recipes from the Beautiful Island
Hardcover. Giving readers an insider's look at Taiwanese cooking with almost 100 recipes for both home-style dishes and street food, this book includes recipes that range from the familiar, such as Pork Belly Buns, Three Cup Chicken, and Beef Noodle Soup, to the exotic, like the Stuffed Bitter Melon, Oyster Noodle Soup, and Dried Radish Omelette. Num Pages: 240 pages, full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 964.
While certain dishes from Taiwan are immensely popular, like steamed buns and bubble tea, the cuisine still remains relatively unknown in America. In The Food of Taiwan, Taiwanese-American Cathy Erway, the acclaimed blogger and author of The Art of Eating In, gives readers an insider's look at Taiwanese cooking with almost 100 recipes for both home-style dishes and street food. Recipes range from the familiar, such as Pork Belly Buns, Three Cup Chicken, and Beef Noodle Soup, to the exotic, like the Stuffed Bitter Melon, Oyster Noodle Soup, and Dried Radish Omelette. Tantalizing food photographs intersperse with beautiful shots of ... Read moreTaiwan's coasts, mountains, and farms and gritty photos of bustling city scenes, making this book just as enticing to flip through as it is to cook from. Show Less
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
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About Cathy Erway
CATHY ERWAY is the author of The Art of Eating In and has written for publications such as Saveur, PAPER magazine, and Serious Eats. She is the host of Heritage Radio Network's Eat Your Words and co-founded the Hapa Kitchen supper club.
Reviews for The Food of Taiwan: Recipes from the Beautiful Island
In this appetizing collection, Erway ( The Art of Eating In ), an acclaimed blogger at Not Eating Out in NY, takes readers on a cultural and culinary tour of Taiwan that will engage armchair travelers and foodies alike From pantry staples such as chili bean sauce, ginger, and rice wine to the vibrant night markets that take over entire ... Read morestreets, she offers an insider s perspective of the Taiwanese lifestyle and reveals what makes a dish distinctly Taiwanese. In addition to chapters on appetizers, vegetables, meat, and seafood, she explores the lasting culinary influences of military villages, train bento boxes, and Taiwanese tea. Recipes for fried pork chop noodle soup, shredded chicken over rice, and Hakka-style sweet green tea convey cultural insight as well as instruction Photos of everyday people, the diverse landscape, and alluring dishes complete this engaging and delightful collection. Publisher's Weekly, starred review Erway s cookbook is among the very first to celebrate Taiwanese food and culture in English. It is written with deep affection, and the photographs capture the beauty of Taiwan and its tantalizing cooking. Erway s charming stories make this book as much a travelogue as an enticing introduction to this little-known cuisine. Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky s Edge A fresh voice, a fascinating new culture (at least for most of us), and bulletproof recipes. Cathy Erway writes as well as she cooks, which is great. Peter Kaminsky, author of Culinary Intelligence Taiwanese is one of the great neglected regional cuisines of China. Why? Because Taiwanese restaurateurs are more likely to open Cantonese, Shanghai, or Sichuan restaurants, and keep their own excellent dishes like stinky tofu, oyster omelets, beef noodle soup, and meatball mochi to themselves. In Cathy Erway s new cookbook The Food of Taiwan, she explicates all these recipes and more, filling a great gap in our knowledge of Chinese cooking, inviting you to mount your own dinner party. Robert Sietsema, Eater NY In this appetizing collection, Erway (The Art of Eating In), an acclaimed blogger at Not Eating Out in NY, takes readers on a cultural and culinary tour of Taiwan that will engage armchair travelers and foodies alike... From pantry staples such as chili bean sauce, ginger, and rice wine to the vibrant night markets that take over entire streets, she offers an insider's perspective of the Taiwanese lifestyle and reveals what makes a dish distinctly Taiwanese. In addition to chapters on appetizers, vegetables, meat, and seafood, she explores the lasting culinary influences of military villages, train bento boxes, and Taiwanese tea. Recipes for fried pork chop noodle soup, shredded chicken over rice, and Hakka-style sweet green tea convey cultural insight as well as instruction... Photos of everyday people, the diverse landscape, and alluring dishes complete this engaging and delightful collection.
Publisher's Weekly, starred review Erway's cookbook is among the very first to celebrate Taiwanese food and culture in English. It is written with deep affection, and the photographs capture the beauty of Taiwan and its tantalizing cooking. Erway's charming stories make this book as much a travelogue as an enticing introduction to this little-known cuisine.
Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge A fresh voice, a fascinating new culture (at least for most of us), and bulletproof recipes. Cathy Erway writes as well as she cooks, which is great.
Peter Kaminsky, author of Culinary Intelligence Taiwanese is one of the great neglected regional cuisines of China. Why? Because Taiwanese restaurateurs are more likely to open Cantonese, Shanghai, or Sichuan restaurants, and keep their own excellent dishes
like stinky tofu, oyster omelets, beef noodle soup, and meatball mochi
to themselves. In Cathy Erway's new cookbook The Food of Taiwan, she explicates all these recipes and more, filling a great gap in our knowledge of Chinese cooking, inviting you to mount your own dinner party.
Robert Sietsema, Eater NY Erway's cookbook is among the very first to celebrate Taiwanese food and culture in English. It is written with deep affection, and the photographs capture the beauty of Taiwan and its tantalizing cooking. Erway's charming stories make this book as much a travelogue as an enticing introduction to this little-known cuisine.
Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge A fresh voice, a fascinating new culture (at least for most of us), and bulletproof recipes. Cathy Erway writes as well as she cooks, which is great.
Peter Kaminsky, author of Culinary Intelligence Taiwanese is one of the great neglected regional cuisines of China. Why? Because Taiwanese restaurateurs are more likely to open Cantonese, Shanghai, or Sichuan restaurants, and keep their own excellent dishes
like stinky tofu, oyster omelets, beef noodle soup, and meatball mochi
to themselves. In Cathy Erway's new cookbook The Food of Taiwan, she explicates all these recipes and more, filling a great gap in our knowledge of Chinese cooking, inviting you to mount your own dinner party.
Robert Sietsema, Eater NY Show Less
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