Mrs. Ma's Favorite Chinese Recipes

Few persons who enjoy real Chinese cookery will fail to understand the old saying in the Far East that Chinese food, a Japanese wife, and an American home would make an ideal life for a man. And most of those, men and women alike, who have first tasted the delights of Chinese food in restaurants have wish to know how to create similar masterpieces at home without the aid of a chef. Fortunately, in this book, Nancy Chih Ma Provides them with this knowledge. Born and brought up in China, Mrs. Ma can speak with authority on the art of Chinese home cooking. In Japan, where she and her family now live, she has rightfully earned the reputation of a master chef and a competent instructor in this art, both among Japanese women - who attend her lecture-demonstrations, observe her on TV, and buy the Japanese version of her cookbook in great numbers - and among the many Western women who study with her. Here, enticingly illustrated, are the secrets of Nancy Ma's kitchen, set down in more than 200 tempting and easy-to-follow recipes and supplemented by a treasury of helps and hints for producing masterpieces of Chinese cooking at home.