Chinese Feasts & Festivals: A Cookbook

Chinese Feasts & Festivals: A Cookbook

<b>This beautifully illustrated Chinese cookbook features all the most popular feast and festival food along with a wealth information.</b> <br /><br />It is often said that the Chinese live to eat. Happily for them, the rich culinary tradition of China is largely inspired by a calendar year filled with a generous round of joyous occasions—festivals, reunions, weddings and anniversaries—for eating, drinking and making merry. And, of course, for paying homage to the gods and ancestors. <br /><br />Food, fittingly, is a combination of flavors and symbols (wealth, happiness, luck, prosperity), a spiritual celebration and an earthly pleasure. <i>Chinese Feasts & Festivals</i>, S.C. Moey has assembled a number of facts and fancies as well as a collection of festival specialties for the Chinese food lover to read and enjoy or, if the spirit takes flight, cook up a feast that will impress both mortals and ancestors and win the approval of the gods. <br /><br /><b>Authentic Chinese recipes include:</b> <ul><li> Drunken Chicken</li><li> Steamed Duck with Bamboo Shoots</li><li> Five Spice Rolls</li><li> Spicy Sichuanese Lamb</li><li> Sweet and Sour Fish</li><li> Chinese Lettuce Leaf Cups</li><li> Yangzhou Fried Rice</li><li> Sweet Red Bean Pancakes</li><li> Steamed Rice Flour Cupcakes</li><li> New Years Cakes</li></ul>