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The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook: Home Cooking from Asian American Kitchens |  | Author: Pat Tanumihardja
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 31955
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 368
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 157061556X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.595
EAN: 9781570615566
ASIN: 157061556X
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
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Product Description
Asian grandmothers -- whether of Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, or Indian descent -- are the keepers of the cultural, and culinary, flame. Their mastery of delicious home-cooked dishes and comfort food makes them the ideal source for this cookbook. Author Patricia Tanumihardja has assembled 130 tantalizing dishes from authentic Indonesian fried rice (nasi goreng) to the classic Filipino Chicken Adobo to the ultimate Japanese comfort dish Oyako donburi. This is hearty food, brightly flavored, equally good to look at and eat. Flavors range from soy and ginger to hot chiles, fragrant curries, and tart vinegars. The author has translated all of the recipes to work in modern home kitchens. Many of them have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations without written recipes, and some appear in tested and written form for the first time. An exhaustive Asian Pantry glossary explains the ingredients, from the many kinds of rice and curries to unfamiliar but flavorful vegetables.
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A book above my other cookbooks November 15, 2009
Francis Law
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Patricia did a really good job in creating this cookbook with not just beautiful images but also the recipes are taste-proof (meaning that the dishes in this book has been cooked and for sure been worth the word - yummy!!! to be placed in the book!) This is indeed a great find as there is a lot of recipes and I know some of you out there prefer images, however this book is going to cook your way into your stomach. Do not be afraid to get one as this is on my top favorite cookbooks to choose from when cooking for friends!
Most of the dishes in here has been a long-time favorite, and I am licking my lips just typing about the it... heehee
A book not only has history of flavor, but also a mixed of wonderful imagination of taste!
Hope you will enjoy the book as much as I do and not be afraid to try try try!
Cheers :))
One of the best October 26, 2009
W. Fong (Seattle, WA)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is one of the best cookbooks I own. Visually, the book is beautiful from the photographs to the background patterns to the layout. More importantly though, the recipes are diverse, tasty, and the real thing. Who doesn't love that nostalgic well loved meal prepared by your grandma. Mine is across the country but I still remember all the holidays and large family meals. Here you find familiar favorites but also the more obscure authentic dishes. I look forward to finding out more of those secrets, usually passed down through families, that make a dish really special. Better get cooking!
A Wealth of Knowledge and Flavor December 25, 2009
Thom Mitchell (Providence, RI USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
For those of us who didn't grow up near our grandmothers or weren't lucky enough to grow up eating Asian American food - Ms. Tanumihardja brings us into the kitchens and cultures of so many amazing women. The recipes span the entire Asian Pacific region and Ms. Tanumihardja has taken the time to transcribe the recipes into easily understood and replicated instructions that clearly walk you through each step of making a dish. It's almost as if each grandmother is in the kitchen with you telling you all of her cooking secrets.
She also includes beautiful and informative photographs and descriptions of ingredients for all of the cuisines covered. She clearly illustrates the uses and differences of each variety of noodle, various vegetables, all of the sauces, etc. But she is also aware of that some ingredients can be hard to come by, and so helpfully lists acceptable substitutions where possible. As good as all of the recipes are though, I found the stories by and about the grandmothers just as interesting and at times moving.
I have a lot of Asian cookbooks but this one is my new favorite because of how much information it conveys about so many different cuisines, all from really interesting and amazing Asian-American grandmothers. This book is a perfect gift for yourself, or for anyone who wants to learn how to cook better Asian meals. I only wish this book had come out years ago because it has replaced most of my other Asian cookbooks. Buy this book, you will be glad you did.
Beyond awesome! January 21, 2010
I. Chan (Seattle, WA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Patricia had done a spectacular job on writing this book. I hate it when you buy a cookbook and the author sometimes purposely leave out certain ingredients or steps because they do not want to review all of their secrets but with this book you will not have to worry about that because grandmothers never lie! I have tried out a few of the recipes and they are so yummy and most importantly they WORK! I highly recommend this book to whoever love to cook asian food and who else is better to learn how to cook than our grandmothers right? The pictures are beautifully done in this book too. It is a must have in your cookbook library!
This is it! The real deal cookbook ! February 7, 2010
D. Chung (Melbourne Australia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book brought back floods of memories on how I remembered my granny used to slaved away in her kitchen and came out with some of the best dishes ever! In those days, there was no oven, no blender, no microwave, in fact, nothing electrical except a dark corner that represented a kitchen. Nothing was ever written and measurements were always, " a bit of this and a bit of that"
It was fascinating to read that other grannies cooked the same way too. Equally interesting is that all the recipes stood the test of time and were passed on from generation to generation. Pat Tanumihardja did a marvellous job by sharing this with us. Undoubtedly, a very special book and is highly recommended.
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