Chinese Imperial Cuisines and Eating Secrets

Chinese Imperial Cuisines and Eating Secrets
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$28.99

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English/Chinese(simplified). 360 pages. China's traditional customs for eating and drinking have always emphasized food and its nutrition. For example, around the time of the Zhou Dynasty(1122-247 B.C.), palace food doctors, or medical nutritionists as they are known today, headed the imperial medical staff.

Contents: Introduction; The History of Chinese Imperial Food; Imperial Food in the Ming Dynasty; Imperial Food in the Qing Dynasty; Western Kitchen, Cixi's Private Kitchen; Hot Pot Dishes in the Palace; Tea Drinking in the Palace; Chinese Food and Health Building; Chinese Cuisines; Chinese Stir-Fried Dishes; How Chinese Dishes Were Named; 54 Imperial Dishes (recipes).



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