{"id":19601,"date":"2013-02-25T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:17:28","slug":"every-grain-of-rice-simple-chinese-home-cooking-by-fuchsia-dunlop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/every-grain-of-rice-simple-chinese-home-cooking-by-fuchsia-dunlop\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/02\/Every-Grain-of-Rice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26706\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/02\/Every-Grain-of-Rice-e1434032823596.jpg\" alt=\"9780393089042_EveryGrainOfRice_JKT.indd\" width=\"610\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>How&#8217;s this for a fabulous first line? &#8220;The Chinese know, perhaps better than anyone else, how to eat.&#8221; Think about any little small town in the U.S. alone &#8230; no matter where you are, the one type of food you can be guaranteed to find sooner than later, is &#8230; Chinese. Really. On these here home shores (and everywhere in between), you&#8217;ll find more Chinese restaurants than McDonald\u2019s, Burger King, Wendy\u2019s, Pizza Hut, and Domino\u2019s <em>combined<\/em> [check out this quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTRiX2CUK6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo! video on the all-American history of Chinese food<\/a>]. That said, American Chinese food is not exactly authentic &#8230; so if you&#8217;re looking for some real cuisine, this gorgeous cookbook promises basic, fresh, healthy, delicious, and best of all &#8230; simple.<\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuchsiadunlop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fuchsia Dunlop<\/a>, who holds the\u00a0distinction\u00a0of being &#8220;the first Westerner to train as a chef at\u00a0the\u00a0Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in central China.&#8221; She speaks fluent Mandarin (which always elevates any outsider&#8217;s status), and has spent two decades researching, crafting, creating Chinese culinary delights\u00a0\u2013 she&#8217;s got two award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuchsiadunlop.com\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cookbooks and a memoir<\/a> as proof.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest is another feast, done simple: &#8220;I&#8217;m not talking here about [Chinese] exquisite haute cuisine, or their ancient tradition of gastronomy. I&#8217;m talking about the ability of ordinary Chinese home cooks to transform humble and largely vegetarian ingredients into wonderful delicacies, and to eat in a way that not only delights the senses, but also makes sense in terms of health, economy and the environment.&#8221; She reminds us (more than a few times, because we need it, ahem), &#8220;With all the fuss over the Mediterranean diet, people in the West tend to forget that the Chinese have a system of eating that is equally healthy, balanced, sustainable and pleasing. Perhaps it&#8217;s the dominance of Chinese restaurant food\u00a0\u2013 with its emphasis on meat, seafood and deep-frying as a cooking method\u00a0\u2013 that has made us overlook the fact that typical Chinese home cooking is centered on grains and vegetables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of picking up the phone for that next delivery or take-out, Dunlop gives you the better, healthier, tastier option of staying in. She shows you how to stock your kitchen with easy essentials (including &#8220;magic ingredients&#8221;!) \u2013\u00a0sauces, spices, and equipment. She offers a basic primer on cutting (&#8220;the first basic skill of the Chinese kitchen&#8221;) and other how-to techniques. She helps you plan your table, from beginning to (healthy)\u00a0dessert, even providing sample menus for two, four, and six. Then there are the recipes &#8230; with truly picture-perfect photography for almost every dish. Just leafing through a few pages will get you salivating. Please, do pass the bib!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2013 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a fabulous first line? &#8220;The Chinese know, perhaps better than anyone else, how to eat.&#8221; Think about any little small town in the U.S. alone &#8230; no matter where you are, the one type of food you can be guaranteed to find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114,67,20],"tags":[6608,59,115,109,116,111],"class_list":["post-19601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-british","category-chinese","category-nonfiction","tag-bookdragon","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-every-grain-of-rice","tag-food","tag-fuchsia-dunlop","tag-how-to"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/every-grain-of-rice-simple-chinese-home-cooking-by-fuchsia-dunlop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How&#8217;s this for a fabulous first line? 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