Chinese Feasts & Festivals: A Cookbook

By S.C. Moey and S C Moey

Book Overview

This beautifully illustrated Chinese cookbook features all the most popular feast and festival food along with a wealth information.

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.

Food, fittingly, is a combination of flavors and symbols (wealth, happiness, luck, prosperity), a spiritual celebration and an earthly pleasure. Chinese Feasts & Festivals, 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.

Authentic Chinese recipes include: Drunken Chicken Steamed Duck with Bamboo Shoots Five Spice Rolls Spicy Sichuanese Lamb Sweet and Sour Fish Chinese Lettuce Leaf Cups Yangzhou Fried Rice Sweet Red Bean Pancakes Steamed Rice Flour Cupcakes New Years Cakes

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804849692
• ISBN13: 9780804849692
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Periplus Editions
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful - accurate & wonderful to experience.

This book is a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. The recipes are true & easy to follow. The stories enchant....... I've purchased several copies as gifts as well as for my own kitchen.

a MUST own ....

my eight year old borrowed this amazing book for the library. and man, are we thrilled or what. the book not only tells you the how and why of classic chinese traditional cusines but also the many chinese festivals that were celebrated by the chinese folks. the traditions and old wives' tales are all carefully explained. truly, a treasure. and i considered a great gift to anyone who is facinated with foreign cultures and traditions.