Chinese-Ish: Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic, 100% Delicious

Name: Chinese-Ish: Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic, 100% Delicious
Author: Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu
ISBN: 9781623717995

by Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu

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A cookbook celebrating the blending of cultures and identity through food, with a bounty of Chinese-influenced dishes from all over South-East Asia As immigrants with Chinese heritage, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu spent their formative years living between (at least) two cultures and wondering how they fitted in. Food was a huge part of this journey; should they cling to the traditional comfort of their parents’ varied culinary heritage, attempt to assimilate wholly by learning to love mashed potatoes, or forge a new path where flavor and the freedom to choose trumped authenticity? They went with option three. Chinese-ish celebrates the confident blending of culture and identity through food—take what you love and reject what doesn't work for you.…

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"Chinese-Ish takes questions of culinary identity, tosses them up in the air, and lets them land where they may. Australians Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu confront their blended-Chinese heritage by exploring classics of home cooking like wontons, fried rice and stir-fries – while also going where nobody’s grandma has gone before, with “very Inauthentic Shrimp Toast” and “Microwave Cheong fun” rice noodle rolls. Refreshingly uninterested in purity tests and irresistibly illustrated by Hu, Chinese-Ish is an irreverent charmer and more evidence (if more were needed) of the unending global love affair with Chinese cuisine."

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