Ken Hom, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-394-58758-5
Cookbook veteran Hom (Ken Hom's Chinese Kitchen) admits that Chinese cooking carries expectations of lots of preparation work, exotic ingredients and split-second timing. To offset this faulty rep, he recalls his youth in Chicago's Chinatown, where...
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Ken Hom, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-688-07753-2
Veteran food writer, instructor and consultant Hom (East Meets West, Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery, etc.) displays his considerable talents in an enticing collection that draws upon several Asian cuisines. Fresh, colorful fare is introduced by...
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Ken Hom, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (271p) ISBN 978-0-671-47086-9
Hom (Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery, etc.a celebrated chef of the New American Cooking school and a Californian of Chinese ancestryoffers a hybrid cuisine, a natural, unforced blending of ingredients and techniques borrowed mainly from China, France and...
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Ken Hom, Author Simon & Schuster $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64469-7
Some Westerners assume that the food of Hong Kong--or Fragrant Harbor, as the British colony was once called in Chinese--is as bland as Cantonese. Hom ( Chinese Technique ), who has taught cooking in Hong Kong for a decade, proves this is not the...
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Ken Hom. Firefly, $35 (352p) ISBN 978-155407-943-8
Encapsulating the vast world of Chinese cookery in a single volume is no easy feat, but this book from a veteran author (Ken Hom’s Chinese Cooking) and TV host (Great Food) provides a solid introduction in 250 recipes. Hom begins with a brief but...
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Ken Hom, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Paul Berg, Photographer Chronicle Books $14.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-87701-770-7
Purists and food snobs, look elsewhere for instructions on staging a complete Szechuan banquet. Instead, this is a bonanza for American cooks who like Chinese-style dishes and want to learn how to make a few simple ones, but not master an entire...
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Ken Hom, Author, Jeremy Hopley, Photographer Headline Book Publishing $26.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7472-7600-5
For times when speed is a key concern, Hom's latest cookbook offers recipes that are easy to prepare and boast an Asian flair appealing to the American palate. An authority on Chinese cooking, Hom opens his cookbook with a section on ingredients and
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Ken Hom, Author, Leong Ka Tai, Photographer, Leong Ka Tai, Photographer Simon & Schuster $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69221-6
If you're looking for help in recreating the Moo Goo Gai Pan you have delivered to your digs every other Thursday, this is not it: Hom ( Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery ) respects his subject too much to simplify it. Thus Western readers may be lured and...
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