A Common Table: 80 Recipes And Stories From My Shared Cultures
by Cynthia Chen McTernan
Buy on AmazonJAMES BEARD AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • NPR • Epicurious • Eater In A Common Table, Two Red Bowls blogger Cynthia Chen McTernan shares more than 80 Asian-inspired, modern recipes that marry food from her Chinese roots, Southern upbringing, and Korean mother-in-law’s table. The book chronicles Cynthia’s story alongside the recipes she and her family eat every day—beginning when she met her husband at law school and ate out of two battered red bowls, through the first years of her legal career in New York, to when she moved to Los Angeles to start a family. As Cynthia’s life has changed, her cooking has become more diverse.…
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"Lawyer/food blogger Cynthia Chen McTernan’s primary food influences are Southern (from her childhood), Korean (from her mother-in-law) and Chinese (from her family). Sound promising? For good reason. Some of these recipes flaunt their passport stamps for all to see: lion’s head meatballs, tea eggs, fried kimchi. But others fall in the “only in America” category: collard wontons, Chinese cola chicken wings, Korean cheesy corn. This is McTernan’s first cookbook, and it has that feeling about it: hopeful, eclectic, conversational. I very much doubt it will be her last."
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