FREE: The CHINESE Vegetarian Cook Book - GUC - illustrations & textured paper

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This is a pre loved book, Copyright 1972. it is a bit discolored from age, & has a crease on the title page, but otherwise, it's an exceptional book, in great shape 4 it's age. '72-'82-'92-'2002-'2012-'2017=47 years!?

The paper used in the book, is textured, so it provides a sensory experience as it's read.

This book is NOT like a traditional cook book, that has recipes, & ingredients lists, on every page.

This book reads more like a biography, of how food items were used, in a traditional Chinese vegetarian diet.

On every other page, there are beautiful illustrations of the basic life of traditional Chinese people, the objects they would use, & food they would eat.

So the book, is also like a trip to China, & all the things 1 might see while on a tour there, The book describes some of the types of food available in China, & what one might b offered 2 eat, while on a tour there.

The book covers a meatless Chinese diet, with the main protein alternatives, being Beans/bean curd, eggs, & wheat gluten otherwise known as Seitan.

The author talks a lot about the traditional preparations of various vegetarian food items available in China, & recipes 4 SOME of the food items.

For example Gluten - Gluten and How to Make it in your Kitchen - Home-Made Gluten - Washing the Gluten - For Saving the Wheat Starch - To Cook the Raw Gluten - [Cooked (or steamed) Gluten with Green Peppers] - is a representative recipe

The author continues in another section, describing how to make ones own soy milk from soybeans.

Brining Vegetables - Various Sauces - making "egg skins" or Chinese Crepes - Deep fried vegetables - Seasonings - An Index of food items & how they are used - Apple (fried apple pieces-cooked basically like caramelized onions are) - Arrowroot - Asparagus - Avocado - Banana - Barley - Bean Curd - Beans: Red, Beans: Lima - Broccoli - Carrots -etc with a small write up about their use.

The book, does NOT have a recipe, or multiple recipes per every item described.