Everyday Chinese Cooking: Quick and Delicious Recipes from the Leeann Chin Restaurants - Hardcover

Chin, Leeann; Chin, Katie

 
9780609605868: Everyday Chinese Cooking: Quick and Delicious Recipes from the Leeann Chin Restaurants

Synopsis

A successful Chinese-American restaurateur and her daughter introduce a collection of more than 150 reliable, easy-to-follow recipes for delicious and healthful Chinese specialties--all of which emphasize fresh ingredients and low-fat cooking techniques--including Litchi Pudding, Chicken with Chinese Vegetables, and Shrimp and Cilantro Dumplings. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author

LEEANN CHIN is an award-winning restaurateur, professional chef, caterer, and founder of Leeann Chin, Inc., which includes fifty-seven restaurants and take-out locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Detroit, and Kansas City areas (with more new restaurants opening in these regions plus Des Moines and Wisconsin). She has been named Entrepreneur of the Year (1993) by the National Association of Women Business Owners. Leeann lives in Minneapolis.

KATIE CHIN, Leeann's daughter, is an entertainment industry marketing executive, writer, and board member of Leeann Chin, Inc. She is currently senior vice president of worldwide promotions for Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising and lives in Los Angeles.

From the Inside Flap

are too many exotic ingredients." . . . "What about all that preparation?" . . . "I don't want to buy special equipment." . . . Acclaimed restaurateur Leeann Chin and her daughter Katie have heard all the excuses before, and in response they present their collection of delicious, simple recipes that will make any cook feel like a gourmet Chinese chef. Everyday Chinese Cooking proves that the very best Chinese cooking can be achieved in a real home kitchen, by real people, on real schedules.

As a young, time-strapped mother cooking for a family of eight on a limited budget -- and in her new home of Minnesota, half a world away from where she was raised -- Leeann Chin developed recipes that worked for her new lifestyle, without access to all the ingredients of her homeland and within the constraints of a very busy life. The results speak for themselves: quick, flavorful, accessible but authentic Chinese dishes that could make you consider opening up you

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