Chinese-ish: Home cooking, not quite authentic, 100% delicious

Awards:   Long-listed for Best Designed Cookbook 2023 (Australia) Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2023 (UK) Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2023 (United States) Short-listed for Best Designed Cookbook 2023 (Australia) Short-listed for Best Visuals 2023 (United States)
Author:   Rosheen Kaul ,  Joanna Hu
Publisher:   Murdoch Books
ISBN:  

9781922351791


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   05 July 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for Best Designed Cookbook 2023 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2023 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2023 (United States)
  • Short-listed for Best Designed Cookbook 2023 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Best Visuals 2023 (United States)

Overview

James Beard Award 2023 winner for Best Visuals As immigrants with Chinese heritage who both moved to Australia as kids, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu spent their formative years living between (at least) two cultures and wondering how they fitted in. Food was a huge part of this journey - should they cling to the traditional comfort of their parents' varied culinary heritage, attempt to assimilate wholly by learning to love shepherd's pie, or forge a new path where flavour and the freedom to choose trumped authenticity? They went with option three. Chinese-ish celebrates the confident blending of culture and identity through food: take what you love and reject what doesn't work for you. In these pages you'll find a bounty of inauthentic Chinese-influenced dishes from all over Southeast Asia, including the best rice and noodle dishes, wontons and dumplings, classic Chinese mains and even a Sichuan Sausage Sanga that would sit proudly at any backyard barbecue. There are also plenty of tips and shortcuts to demystify any tricky-sounding techniques, and reassuring advice on unfamiliar ingredients and where to find them. Chinese-ish is modern, unconventional, innovative, vibrant, tasty, colourful, incredibly delicious food.

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Author:   Rosheen Kaul ,  Joanna Hu
Publisher:   Murdoch Books
Imprint:   Murdoch Books
Weight:   0.812kg
ISBN:  

9781922351791


ISBN 10:   1922351792
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   05 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On feeling Chinese-ish PART ONE CHINESE COOKING 101 Key information for successful Chinese-ish cooking Chinese cooking techniques How to cook rice without a rice cooker How to cook nearly every type of noodle and some great ways to eat them How to make stock How to make wontons How to make dumplings How to make fried rice How to make congee How to make some iconic condiments How to stir-fry vegetables PART TWO THE REBELLION: HOW TO DISAPPOINT YOUR PARENTS There and back again The solo diner An ode to eggs Chinese-ish snacks that feel kinda wrong PART THREE MY LOVE LANGUAGE IS A FRUIT PLATTER On the love of an immigrant parent Old Chinese favourites and fond food memories Dishes for a crowd A few desserts we don't hate

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'Chinese-ish completely exhilarates me! Utterly delicious, compelling, idiosyncratic and refreshingly honest, by two of this country's most dynamic young talents.' Kylie Kwong


Author Information

Rosheen Kaul is head chef at Melbourne's Etta restaurant, where she cooks a menu as culturally diverse as she is. Born in Singapore to parents of mixed Asian heritage (Kashmiri, Peranakan Chinese, Filipino), she grew up between Melbourne, Malaysia, China and Indonesia. To her parents' horror she pursued a career in cooking, working at new-style Chinese diner Lee Ho Fook and Smith & Daughters, followed by Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. It was at the beginning of the pandemic that her employer shut the doors and as a project to occupy herself, Rosheen began documenting all the inauthentic Asian recipes she most loved to eat each day. Joanna Hu is an illustrator and ex front-of-house at Vue de Monde, Saint Crispin and Fat Duck restaurants. The daughter of Chinese Australian parents, she eschewed a career in law for a whirlwind few years in hospitality before settling into a life of painting, knitting, watching crime procedurals and buying an excess of charity shop tweed blazers.

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