Don't be a Copycat!

Don't Lick the Chopsticks: The Creative, Harmonious Ma Family Chinese Cookbook From the front flap: "From Mrs. Ma, famed internationally as an expert on Chinese food, comes an array of Pekinese dishes - rich, festive, well-seasoned dishes of the ancient capital. Her daughter-in-law Irene is a native of Swatow and offers the Western cook, for the first time, recipes from this port city, which emphasize freshness, lightness, purity of flavor, and delight in the harvest of the sea. Daughter Mary has blended the traditions of East and West to create many of her own unique dishes adaptable to any kitchen - even a Chinese-inspired sauerkraut to delight her German husband. And, finally, youngest daughter Helen grabs the creative spirit with both hands, breaks with tradition and ignores rules, and shows by example how anyone who likes to cook can cook Chinese." Just a few of the recipes included in this book: Sweet and Sour Cucumbers Fried Crab Balls Dragon Pearls Jellied Lamb Chinese Pickles Beancurd with Zest Stuffed Lotus Phoenix Nest Baked Sesame Salmon Crisp Fish with Pine Nuts Prawns with Walnuts Spicy Clams Curried Cuttlefish Cloud Scroll Rolls Coin Purse Eggs Chinese Omelet Sizzling Rice Chicken and Chrysanthemums Gold Silver Chickens Piquant Pig's Feet Serenity Pork Paper Wrapped Beef Beef with Many Moons Melon Soup Fish Ball Soup Sweet Bird's Nest with Quail Eggs Egg Crepes Almond