Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking
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Fuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef at China's leading cooking school and is internationally renowned for her delicious recipes and brilliant writing about Chinese food. Every Grain of Rice is inspired by the healthy and vibrant home cooking of southern China, in which meat and fish are enjoyed in moderation, but vegetables play the starring role. Try your hand at blanched choy sam with sizzling oil, Hangzhou broad beans with ham, pock-marked old woman's beancurd or steamed chicken with shiitake mushrooms, or, if you've ever in need of a quick fix, Fuchsia's emergency late-night noodles. Many of the recipes require few ingredients and are startlingly easy to make. The book includes a comprehensive introduction to the key seasonings and techniques of the Chinese kitchen, as well as the 'magic ingredients' that can transform modest vegetarian ingredients into wonderful delicacies. With stunning photography and clear instructions, this is an essential volume for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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More like every page a perfection! Every recipe a hit!
I've made a handful of the recipes and every single one of them has been (1) quick and easy, and (2) sooo tasty. I've been to several dinner parties with friends where all we did was cook a bunch of dishes from this. These recipes feel celebratory enough for a dinner party with friends (oh, the post-covid horizon...!), but also easy enough for the weeknight. GLORIOUS.
I covet Sichuan cooking especially, and have lately been disappointed with the insufficiently numbing-heat options near me. This book (a) has some Sichuan options (though lately I am thinking my Sichuan peppercorns are too old, since they are insufficiently numbing my mouth) and (b) has so many extremely tasty other regional options as well.
Stocking your pantry can be an initial adventure (I found Shaoxing wine on walmart.com...), but once you have those essentials, these recipes really are just simple, straightforward “home cooking” applications of wondrous flavor to fresh stuff.
Special shout-out to the chicken and chestnuts dish - u + me = <3.
