Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
Sample Recipes from Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
Pickling is an age-old way of storing seasonally available ingredients; it’s also a way of lengthening the time you can keep any fr...
Pork With Napa Cabbage and Chiles
Jenny’s mother made this stir-fry, hot and beautiful with freshly minced red chiles, and pleasantly crunchy with barely cooked stem...
Dai Chile-Fish Soup with Flavored Oil
Behind most Dai houses in the villages of southern Yunnan, there’s a small pond. Fish live there, and when the cook wants fresh fis...
Flavored oils are the cook’s best friend. In Southeast Asia, these oils—others include scallion oil, chile oil, garlic oil, a...
Tofu Batons with Hot Sesame...
We first tasted these tofu batons in the Jinghong market in southern Yunnan, sold by Dai women. There, as in nearby Thailand to the south...
The Uighurs share with their close cousins the Uzbeks a delicious pulao tradition. Pulao or pilaf is the name for a rice dish that is coo...