The Yunnan cookbook
Subtitle: recipes from China's land of ethnic diversity
By: Annabel Jackson & Linda Chia
Contributors: Chia, Linda, author
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9789881613974
Subjects: Cooking; Chinese Cooking
Description: Yunnan consists of former kingdoms bordering Tibet, Sichuan, Burma, Vietnam and Laos, and is the most bio-diverse province in China. The book includes text on the province's different food traditions such as foraging for mushrooms, the story behind Yunnan ham (the most famous and perhaps best is produced by the family of Deng Xiaoping's wife), organic tea production and vine growing. Recipes are interspersed with background essays on each ethnic group, describing traditions and traits and the natural beauty, flowers, agriculture, and festival foods of each region.