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Title: Blue Ginger : East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai by Arthur Boehm, Ming Tsai ISBN: 0-609-60530-5 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but not great
Comment: I bought this book without being very familiar with Ming's cooking OR his show. I had read a few reviews of his restaurant and how great it was, and thought that I could find out what the hoopla was about by reading the cookbook. I have to agree with the other reviewers that this IS a good book, with interesting recipes that are very creative and enticing. In addition, its a REALLY well illustrated and laid out book; the graphics and fonts are crisp, with numerous pictures of tempting entrees. However, I found the recipes to be hard to approach. Perhaps this is due to my ignorance of his style and his TV show. Even so, I only found a few recipes that I would personally spend the time to make. They were somewhat complicated, with many ingredients I would have to specifically buy for that one recipe (i.e. I probably wouldn't use them in other recipes.) I still recommend this book, but with the proverbial grain of salt. If you can, check out this list of recipes first, and decide if you'll ACTUALLY make any of them. Otherwise it will just wind up being an (albeit nicely done) coffee-table book.
Rating: 5
Summary: East meets West
Comment: As Ming Tsai likes to put it, his cuisine is all about East meets West. His recipes are grounded by the Chinese influences of his youth. He has taken that and broadened it with his training in various kitchens which taught him "traditional" Western techniques. The end result is imaginative takes on traditional Eastern (e.g. various "dim sum", summer rolls, pho) and Western foods (e.g. osso buco, risotto).
The book is organized into sections so you can easily design a multi-course meal from first course to dessert. I have tried his Hoisin Marinated Pork and Curry Braised Lamb Shanks. Both are wonderful main courses. He also has numerous excellent sides like Three Onion Cous-Cous and Napa Cabbage Slaw. My guests have always showered praise for the dishes I have prepared from the cookbook. For the adventerous, there is section called "Over the Top" for that magnificent foodie experience.
I recommend this book to the serious foodie. You will want/need a well stocked pantry with "unusual" ingredients like oyster sauce, fish sauce, hoisin sauce, black beans, sambal olek, wasabi, etc. However, you won't be disappointed with the results. My copy is already stained with various sacues/marinades and wrinkled by water.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous!
Comment: I love this cookbook! My favorites include pan fried chive and shrimp buns and braised curried lamb shanks. However, as a previous reviewer mentioned, there are some editing problems. For instance, the bun dough called for up to five cups of water when only 1 cup or less is needed! This produced a watery paste-had to remake the dough. With that said, I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Simply Ming : Easy Techniques for East-Meets-West Meals by Ming Tsai, Arthur Boehm ISBN: 0609610678 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Nobu: The Cookbook by Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, Fumihiko Watanabe, Martha Stewart ISBN: 4770025335 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Amuse-Bouche: Little Bites That Delight Before the Meal Begins by Mary Goodbody, Tim Turner, Rick Tramonto ISBN: 0375507604 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Tyler Florence's Real Kitchen : An indespensible guide for anybody who likes to cook by Tyler Florence ISBN: 0609609971 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller, Susie Heller, Michael Ruhlman, Deborah Jones ISBN: 1579651267 Publisher: Artisan Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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