A
Spoonful of Ginger : Irresistible Health-Giving Recipes
from Asian Kitchens by Nina
Simonds (Introduction), Beatriz Da Costa
(Photographer)
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- Hardcover:
320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.11 x 9.56 x
8.39
- Publisher:
Knopf; ; (April 1999)
- ISBN:
0375400362
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From
the Back Cover
"At last, a book that has been on my
wish list forever! Recipes that not only are full of flavor
and taste delicious but most of all are good for us--balanced,
energizing, and nurturing.
Nina
Simonds teaches us about the importance of yin and yang in our
diets and shows us that food is fundamental to our lives and
our health.
Food
is our daily medicine, and Nina's book helps us make this
connection again."
--Nora Pouillon (of Nora and Asia Nora restaurants)
Part
cookbook, part primer of Chinese medicine, Nina Simonds's A
Spoonful of Ginger offers dietary advice, herbal home
remedies, and lively, unintimidating Asian recipes for the
American home cook.
Try Braised
Duck with Tangerine Peel and Sweet Potato as a cure for high
blood pressure. Baked Black Bean Shrimp might be just the dish
to get you over that bout of depression. Simonds presents the
ailing reader with concoctions to relieve everything from
hangovers to frostbite.
And lovers of fine food need not despair--medical advice
is kept brief, presumably to make room for more delicious
recipes.
For example, Steamed Fish with Black Mushrooms and
Prosciutto makes no claims to cure anything but hunger. And any
volume on health food that features a substantial section on
pork (check out Spicy Pork Tenderloin with Leeks and Fennel) can
hardly be called austere or old-fashioned.
With tastes from all over Asia represented, from Indian
curries to Japanese miso, these 200 dishes are tasty riffs on
Chinese themes that should cure even the most jaded of palates. --David
Kalil
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