Best Asian Cookbook In The Market
Leave it to a Westerner to put in writing the proper Chinese cookbook. Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty is probably the most authentic volume on Sichuanese cooking in the English language. Asian cookbooks are inclined to fall into two categories — those stuffed with flowery prose about the mysticism of the cuisine, but don’t have genuine recipes to support it, and fundamental translations of Asian cookbooks with fleeting explanations and poor recipe testing (ie. “1 t of salt, or 1 T of salt? Whatever…it’s all good.”).
