Red Cook
Blog URL http://www.redcook.net
Located New York, New York USA
Tags Food, Cooking, Chinese Food, Recipes
Authentic Chinese home cooking presented with cultural reference and expert advice. Special emphasis is given to mastering the Chinese cooking techniques.
Latest Blog Posts
- Pumpkin Bowl and Thanksgiving on Nov 19, 2009 in Recipes Vegetables Vegetarian Stir-frying
As a newly arrived foreign student from Singapore during my university years in Boston, I had to learn the customs and traditions of American holidays. Although I was already familiar with Christmas and New Year celebrations, Thanksgiving was totally...
- Haw: Sweet and Sour Treats, Food and Medicine on Nov 9, 2009 in Pork Recipes Soup Medicinal
One of my favorite activities when traveling is to visit local food markets. Last week, while wandering through the produce section of a wet market in Shanghai, I found something I’d never seen before. A large unmarked basket was full of miniature...
- Uncommonly Delicious Beet Puffs on Nov 2, 2009 in Pastries Recipes Snack Food
Beets were introduced into China from Babylonia around the ninth century. However unlike other food items of New World origin such as potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts and chilies, which Portuguese traders brought to China in the seventeenth century, beets...
- Cooking Sustainably with Mussels on Oct 25, 2009 in Recipes Seafood Steaming
After fleeing prewar France with her American employers, Clementine and the Beck family settles along the New England coast. As the central character in Samuel Chamberlains’ book Clementine in the Kitchen, the Burgundian cuisinier struggles to adju...
- Durian… “Like Eating Sweet Raspberry Blancmange in the Lavatory” on Oct 12, 2009 in Recipes Sweet Dishes Desserts Durian
If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on about durian it’s the odor. Not only is the odor strong and distinct, it permeates through layers of packaging and lingers interminably. Airlines and public transport authorities in Asia ban durian...
- Save Your Favorite Red Cook Recipes on Springpad on Oct 5, 2009 in News
You’re reading your favorite blog and you found a recipe you’d like to try in the future. You bookmark it in your browser, or print it out. But before you know it your bookmarks are out of control or your printed recipe is lost among your pile of...
- Commercialization of the Moon Festival on Sep 29, 2009 in Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Recipes Sweet Dishes Vegetarian Desserts
I walked into the K-Mart store near Penn Station in New York last week and discovered to my horror that the Christmas section is already fully stocked with artificial Christmas trees, holiday decorations and ribbons. I had to check the date on my New...
