In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with influences from around the world. For Mandy Lee, moving from New York to Beijing for her husband’s work wasn’t an exotic adventure—it was an ordeal. Growing increasingly exasperated with China’s stifling political climate, its infuriating bureaucracy, and its choking pollution, she began “an unapologetically angry food blog,” LadyandPups.com, to keep herself from going mad.
Mandy cooked because it channeled her focus, helping her cope with the difficult circumstances of her new life. She filled her kitchen with warming spices and sticky sauces while she shared recipes and observations about life, food, and cooking in her blog posts. Born in Taiwan and raised in Vancouver, she came of age food-wise in New York City and now lives in Hong Kong; her food reflects the many places she’s lived. This entertaining and unusual cookbook is the story of how “escapism cooking”—using the kitchen as a refuge and ultimately creating delicious and satisfying meals—helped her crawl out of her expat limbo.
Illustrated with her own gorgeous photography, The Art of Escapism Cooking provides that comforting feeling a good meal provides. Here are dozens of innovative and often Asian-influenced recipes, divided into categories by mood and occasion, such as:
For Getting Out of Bed Poached Eggs with Miso-Browned Butter Hollandaise Crackling Pancake with Caramel-Clustered Blueberries and Balsamic Honey
For Slurping Buffalo Fried Chicken Ramen Crab Bisque Tsukemen 
For a Crowd Cumin Lamb Rib Burger Italian Meatballs in Taiwanese Rouzao Sauce
For Snacking Wontons with Shrimp and Chili Coconut Oil and Herbed Yogurt Spicy Chickpea Poppers 
For Sweets Mochi with Peanut Brown Sugar and Ice Cream Recycled Nuts and Caramel Apple Cake
Every dish is sublimely delicious and worth the time and attention required. Mandy also demystifies unfamiliar ingredients and where to find them, shares her favorite tools, and provides instructions for essential condiments for the pantry and fridge, such as Ramen Seasoning, Fried Chili Verde Sauce, Caramelized Onion Powder Paste, and her Ultimate Sichuan Chile Oil.

The Art of Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Lee, Mandy

Cooking Education & Reference

William Morrow Cookbooks

Do you want to make more money doing something meaningful to you? You can generate easy income on the side or even build an extraordinary career doing what you love. Learn how to be an entrepreneur and gain more personal and financial independence! This simple guide illustrates how to initiate, build and maintain your online business with the ease of the Etsy platform. From your goals to photography to shipping and customer service, this book covers it all in patient detail, gathered from years of hands-on experience. It goes beyond the merely technical help that can be found elsewhere by also providing insider practical tips to succeed in any online business, Etsy or other platforms. Free 'get started' worksheets and links to videos and helpful books are also included. Mandy Lee is a successful artist and entrepreneur and has been an Etsy seller since 2009. She takes you through every step involved in opening your shop and provides worksheets and helpful links. She shares stories and personal insights that will guide you through the typical pitfalls and mental frustrations that come with the job of self-employment. It takes mental fortitude and strong ‘whys’ to run your own business and this manual is useful for any self-started venture, be it online or brick and mortar.

From Artistic To Entrepreneur: Turn Your Creativity Into a Thriving Online Business Using the Etsy Platform

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Taos Gargirl

Maya Scotton, a young artist with a severe case of painter’s block, is in need of money. When she takes on an office job at a construction company, she finds herself firmly in the sights of the owner, Daniel Foster - a dangerously attractive man with a dark past and particular tastes in bed. Although she tries to resist him, Maya soon finds herself embroiled in a steamy relationship with Dan. And while he slowly encourages her to paint again, she begins to peel back his layers. At last, when she believes that she's finally come to understand his ways, he has one final secret to reveal … and it's a secret that threatens to blow them apart. You Don’t Know Me, a steamy erotic romance, is the first book in a trilogy. If you enjoy EL James, Sylvia Day and Jodi Ellen Malpas, then this is the trilogy for you.

You Don't Know Me (The You Don't Know Me Trilogy)

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Reeling from the shock of discovering Dan’s true identity, Maya struggles to make the right decision. But she’s incapable of resisting the man she loves, and soon finds herself drawn back into his world - a world of intensely sexual passion. While his love and support help her to confront her fears and blossom as an artist, what she needs more than anything is the ability to trust. Determined to discover the truth and build a future with Dan, she makes it her mission to find out what transformed him into the man he is now. However, the shadows of the past won’t leave them alone. And when those shadows converge, the consequences are far more dangerous than anyone could have predicted. True Colours, a steamy erotic romance, is the second instalment in the You Don't Know Me Trilogy.

True Colours (You Don't Know Me)

X (X, Y, Z Trilogy)

Independently published

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