Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking

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.