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A Spoonful of Ginger: Irresistible, Health-Giving Recipes from Asian Kitchens

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From the most productive-selling authority on Chinese cooking, a groundbreaking cookbook based on the Asian philosophy of food as health-giving. These 200 delectable recipes not only taste superb but also have specific healing properties. It’s a question of balance: countering yin, or cooling, foods, with yang, or hot, foods, and neutralizers like rice and
noodles. It is all here in this remarkable book. From the exotic to the earthy, Simonds will convince you that you’ll enjoy marvelous food each day—relishing its good taste and knowing it is right for you.

Part cookbook, part primer of Chinese medicine, Nina Simonds’s A Spoonful of Ginger offers dietary advice, herbal home remedies, and lively, unintimidating Asian recipes for the American home cook. Try Braised Duck with Tangerine Peel and Sweet Potato as a cure for hypertension. Baked Black Bean Shrimp might be just the dish to get you over that bout of depression. Simonds presents the ailing reader with concoctions to relieve everything from hangovers to frostbite.

And lovers of fine food need not despair–medical advice is kept brief, presumably to make room for more delicious recipes. For example, Steamed Fish with Black Mushrooms and Prosciutto makes no claims to cure anything but hunger. And any volume on health food that includes a substantial section on pork (take a look at Spicy Pork Tenderloin with Leeks and Fennel) can hardly be referred to as austere or old-fashioned. With tastes from everywhere Asia represented, from Indian curries to Japanese miso, these 200 dishes are tasty riffs on Chinese themes that are supposed to cure even the most jaded of palates. –David Kalil

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