"Stir-fry" coined
Pros: Great historical cookbook
Cons: No illustrations, some descriptions older or vague
Pros: Great historical cookbook
Cons: No illustrations, some descriptions older or vague

Pros: Good overview, decent background
Cons: More focus on Hunan differences would be nice

Pros: Good breadth of cooking Sichuan food
Cons: Additional info on alternate versions would be nice
“ I really like this book for historical reasons. It is generally credited with coining the term "stir-fry" in the English language. It's very traditional in that there are no photographs or illustrations, just lists and descriptions of how to cook the ingredients into a meal. The book has a lot of traditional recipes, with suggestions for substitutions for those American...” --emathias
“ I bought this after liking Dunlop's first book, Land of Plenty. This book follows much the same format. I'm not sure you strictly need both books if you're mainly looking for an intro to Chinese cooking, but if you want to go a little deeper into regional cusine and like her style, they make great companion books. Personally, I do think a little more writing about what...” --emathias
“ I really like this cookbook. It has a decent number of photographs, without making every page a photo page. I don't like every page to be a photo page, since a good cookbook ends up getting used and a little messy. The author is native British, but graduated from culinary school in Sichuan, so she has a good background to help translate ingredients and cooking technique in a way that is...” --emathias
Chinese Cuisine 101 is a collection of essays and accompanying recipes written by students in my English Composition 101 class enrolled in the international academic partnership between Fort Hays State University and Sias International University in Xinzheng City, Henan Province, People's Republic of China. --Jason Harper, Editor and Composition 101 teacher
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