Best Chinese Food In America - April 2024

Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States

In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time.It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush struggl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195331079
• UPC: 884390811923
• ASIN: 0195331079
• ISBN: 0195331079
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

• ASIN: B01GZY28JA
• ASIN: B01GZY28JA
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Easy Chinese Recipes: Family Favorites From Dim Sum to Kung Pao

Cook all your favorite Chinese dishes at home with this easy-to-follow Chinese cookbook! Growing up in a Chinese household in Malaysia where cuisine and culture were inseparable, Bee Yinn Low developed a deep love and appreciation for food. Her early memories of helping her mother prepare steamy and fragrant Chinese meals solidified into a way of life for Bee as a working woman in Southern California. A love of Chinese food didn't translate well to a modern Western lifestyle due to time and ingredient constraints. Rather than give up her favorite foods, Bee experimented with recreating the unf... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804841470
• ASIN: 0804841470
• ISBN: 0804841470
• Brand: Tuttle Publishing
• Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing

Helping Ourselves: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics

Helping Ourselves is a beginners guide to nutrition according to the principles of Chinese Medicine. It is a user friendly practical guide, ideally suited to practitioners, students and clients of Chinese medicine as well as those interested more generally in nutrition. The book contains simple one page explanations of each basic diagnostic pattern and the foods that will assist its healing. Helping Ourselves includes charts listing the properties of about 300 common foods and 150 western herbs. It also includes a section on diagnosis. This popular reference manual can also be used as the comp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0952464004
• ASIN: 0952464004
• ISBN: 0952464004
• Manufacturer: Meridian Press

Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity (Food in Asia and the Pacific)

Can food be both national and global at the same time? What happens when a food with a national identity travels beyond the boundaries of a nation? What makes a food authentically national and yet American or broader global? With these questions in mind, Sonia Ryang explores the world of Korean food in four American locations, Iowa City, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Hawaii (Kona and Honolulu). Ryang visits restaurants and grocery stores in each location and observes Korean food as it is prepared and served to customers. She analyzes the history and evolution of each dish, how it arrived and wha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0824853431
• ASIN: 0824853431
• ISBN: 0824853431
• Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press

Ching's Chinese Food in Minutes

If you're hungry for good food but short on time you'll love Ching's quick and easy Chinese recipes. The bestselling author is the master of fresh flavours and simple ingredients and her all-time favourites and exciting new dishes are a delight to cook and share.

• ASIN: 000726500X
• ASIN: 000726500X
• ISBN: 000726500X
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers

Chinese Street Food: Small Bites, Classic Recipes, and Harrowing Tales Across the Middle Kingdom

"Chinese Street Food is brimming with history, food lore, and recipes that take you on a culinary journey outside of the restaurant and into the streets of regional China. Authentic flavors and techniques explode onto the page in a way that first make you salivate, then motivate to roll up your sleeves and get cooking." —Chef Lee Anne Wong One element of Chinese cookery that remains rare throughout the Western world is the most popular style of cuisine across China: street food! Every day, nearly one-fifth of humanity sustains itself on conveniently placed bites and cheap alfresco meals. In ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1510728155
• ASIN: 1510728155
• ISBN: 1510728155
• Brand: Skyhorse
• Manufacturer: Skyhorse

The Island of Sea Women: A Novel

A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. Despite their love for ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GNV4F4S
• ASIN: B07GNV4F4S
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Double Awesome Chinese Food: Irresistible and Totally Achievable Recipes from Our Chinese-American Kitchen

Wildly inventive Chinese-American home cooking from the siblings behind Boston’s acclaimed Mei Mei restaurant.Too intimidated to cook Chinese food at home but crave those punchy flavors? Not anymore. Put down that takeout kung pao chicken and get in the kitchen! Full of irresistible recipes that marry traditional Asian ingredients with comforting American classics and seasonal ingredients, Double Awesome Chinese Food delivers the goods. The three fun-loving Chinese-American siblings behind the acclaimed restaurant Mei Mei take the fear factor out of cooking this complex cuisine, infusing it ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1611805570
• ASIN: 1611805570
• ISBN: 1611805570
• Manufacturer: Roost Books

Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies That Heal

Did you know there’s a powerful herbal medicine chest in your kitchen?Imagine being prepared for that next cold, scrape, headache, digestive issue, stressful day, or sleepless night with simple ingredients from your cupboard. Instead of pills, reach for:Cinnamon Tea to soothe your throat . . . Garlic Hummus to support your immune system . . . Ginger Lemon Tea for cold and flu symptoms . . . Cayenne Salve to relieve sore muscles . . . Cardamom Chocolate Mousse Cake for heart health . . . A glass of Spiced Cold Brew Coffee as a powerful antioxidant . . .Alchemy of Herbs will show you how to tr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 140195006X
• ASIN: 140195006X
• ISBN: 9781401950064
• Brand: LIFESTYLES
• Manufacturer: Hay House Inc.

Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)

From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in Northern California, only to decline as union regulations and competition from national chains made their operation unprofitable. Alfred Yee’s study of this trajectory is an insider’s view of a fascinating era in Asian American immigration and entrepreneurship. Drawing on oral interviews with individuals who worked in the business during it... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0295983043
• ASIN: 0295983043
• ISBN: 0295983043
• Manufacturer: University of Washington Press

The Library Book

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 “A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post “CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING.” —The New York Times * “MESMERIZING…RIVETING.” —Booklist (starred review) A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries—from th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CL5ZLHX
• ASIN: B07CL5ZLHX
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Cancer-Free with Food: A Step-by-Step Plan with 100+ Recipes to Fight Disease, Nourish Your Body & Restore Your Health

The best-selling author of The Earth Diet offers a simple yet comprehensive guide to nutrition for those who have been diagnosed with cancer. With a foreword by Mark Hyman, M.D.If you want to fight cancer, what should you eat?Food is medicine. By now, this important message has made its way from holistic circles to the mainstream. To ward off cancer and decrease its risk, meals specially formulated to nourish, soothe, and fortify can be an important part of treatment. But what foods work best? That remains frustratingly elusive and time-consuming to research.Happily, author Liana Werner-Gray--... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1401956424
• ASIN: 1401956424
• ISBN: 1401956424
• Manufacturer: Hay House Inc.

Ten Restaurants That Changed America

Featuring a new chapter on ten restaurants changing America today, a “fascinating . . . sweep through centuries of food culture” (Washington Post).Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freedman’s seminal and highly entertaining Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled Mandarin; evoking the poignant nostalgia of Howard Johnson’s, the beloved roadside chain that f... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01BX7RZCE
• ASIN: B01BX7RZCE
• Manufacturer: Liveright

Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 500 Everyday Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users. Try Easy and Healthy Instant Pot Recipes.

MASTER YOUR INSTANT POT!Enjoy these 500 Recipes for Any Budget. Recipes are listed step by step in a clear and understandable manner.With this cookbook, you will cook better, tastier and faster meals for yourself and your family.In this cookbook, you will discover…Amazing meals the whole family will love. Recipes for vegetarians anyone will enjoy. Most recipes made for anyone with a busy lifestyle. Detailed ingredient lists and precise cooking times so each dish turns out perfect. Easy-to-follow instructions on making each dish in an Instant Pot. Helpful tips and tricks on how to make each m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1727408403
• ASIN: 1727408403
• ISBN: 1727408403
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Effortless Air Fryer Cookbook : 175 Air Fryer Recipes to Cook Best American and B

Do you like an idea of cooking healthy, oil-free and at the same time fried meals directly at home for your dinner? With the help of this cookbook you'll have an opportunity to become free

• UPC: 198904511

Be the BBQ Pitmaster : A Regional Smoker Cookbook Celebrating America's Best Barbecue

You can pick the protein, switch the sides, and even swap the sauce--but when it comes to being a barbecue pitmaster there are three ingredients that you just can't do without: Meat. Smoke. And, most

• UPC: 50087777

America's Best Pies : Nearly 200 Recipes You'll Love

Since 1995, amateur, commercial, and professional bakers have competed in the National Pie Championships to determine who makes the best pies in America. The Ultimate Book of Pies is a collection of nearly 200 delicious

• UPC: 20653882
• Rating: 5.0

American Cake : From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best-Loved Cakes

9781623365431

• UPC: 51331633
• Rating: 5.0

The Southern Food Truck Cookbook : Discover the South's Best Food on Four Wheels

The Southern Food Truck Cookbook features chefs from James Beard Award-winning kitchens---chefs who've now taken to the streets with menus that reflect their top-shelf training. And then there are those home-cooks-turned-food-truckers who are finally making

• UPC: 23780953

Good Luck Life : The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture

Provides a readable introduction to the legends, customs, traditions, festivals, and celebrations of Chinese culture and heritage, complete with trivia, drawings, charts, tables, recipes, and informative sidebars. Original. 20,000 first

• UPC: 3060943
• Rating: 4.5

The Best American Food Writing 2018

Legendary author and food critic Ruth Reichl collects the year’s finest writing about food and

• UPC: 915815672

Betty Feezor's Best : Recipes, Meal Planning, Low Calorie Menus and Recipes, Food Preservation, Party Plans, Household Hints

2015 Reprint of 1958 Enlarged Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Betty Feezor was a television presenter whose specialty was cooking and home decorations. The Betty Feezor Show

• UPC: 53273730

Chinese Heritage Cooking From My American Kitchen : Discover Authentic Flavors with Vibrant, Modern Recipes

9781624146770

• UPC: 285149914

America's Best BBQ: Homestyle : What the Champions Cook in Their Own Backyards

Collects the best backyard cookout recipes from award-winning pitmasters, including competition recipes and old family recipes, providing tips and advice on everything from meal preparation to

• UPC: 21628947