Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai

Shop Notes: Ming Tsai's first book is a dream for folks who are interested in learning more about cooking Chinese cuisine, but find traditional processes and methods overwhelming or special ingredients hard to find.  (It's okay, we all start somewhere!) The flavors in his recipes are balanced and provide those high and low notes that are so wonderful in many Chinese dishes.  Once you work your way through the foundational recipes and into the more advanced dishes in this book, you'll be well on your way to Fuscia Dunlop, Grace Young, H Mart, and the Ma La Market...and then after that, the world is your oyster sauce! From the Publisher: John Mariani has called Ming Tsai "the foremost interpreter of East-West cuisine in America today," and the appreciative diners at Blue Ginger, Ming's celebrated restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and fans of his top-rated Food Network show, East Meets West with Ming Tsai, agree. Now, in his first cookbook, Ming shares the technique and philosophy b