Chinese Street Food: Small Bites, Classic Recipes, and Harrowing Tales Across the Middle Kingdom
by Howie Southworth and Greg Matza
Skyhorse Publishing | August 2018 | eISBN: 978-1-5107-2817-2 | ePUB | 95.1 mb
One element of Chinese cookery that remains rare throughout the Western world is the most popular style of cuisine across China: street food! Every day, nearly one-fifth of humanity sustains itself on conveniently placed bites and cheap alfresco meals. In China, one's home is often small, kitchens are cramped, and time is short. So, a walkable nosh on the way to the office, a quick, cheap lunch, or an evening spent hopping from snack stand to snack stand with friends is an everyday occurrence.
Howie Southworth and Greg Matza, best friends and bestselling food authors, have been eating their way through China for over two decades. Soon after their yearly culinary journeys began, they were struck with a delicious addiction: street food! Within this entertainingly narrated cookbook, our dynamic eating duo not only fondly recalls highlights of their fascination with China's incredible food culture, but they artfully weave in folklore, origin stories, and witty chats with the cooks, vendors, and fellow gastronomes they've met along the way.
Photographed entirely in China, this book beautifully presents small plates from the balmy rice paddies of Yunnan and spicy streets of Sichuan to the frozen tundra of Harbin and the imperial majesty of Beijing. This tale of two foodies is destined to change the way readers view going out for Chinese.
About the Authors
Howie Southworth is a food author, photographer, and media producer. He is a frequent speaker on education, culture, and cuisine for organizations across the globe. Though Howie has called many delicious destinations home, he and his family currently live in Barcelona, where some very serious food research is underway.
Greg Matza grew up in Los Angeles, weaned on a diet that stretched from Iran to the Philippines to El Salvador?all within a couple of miles from his home. Greg is currently the proud parent of an eighty-thousand BTU propane burner and a collection of very nice potholders. They all live happily in the San Francisco Bay area.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: WHAT'S IN A NAME?
CHAPTER 2: GOOD MORNING, CHINA
CHAPTER 3: MUSLIM STREET
CHAPTER 4: WHEN MA MET LA
CHAPTER 5: YOU'LL LOVE THIS, WE PROMISE
CHAPTER 6: SIMPLE POETRY
CHAPTER 7: WHAT CAME WITH THE CAMELS
CHAPTER 8: CHINESE HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER 9: NOW THAT'S ONE EXPRESS PANDA
CHAPTER 10: SWEET STREET
Conversion Charts
Index
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