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Stir-Fried Garlic Shanghai Bok Choy from Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories

I had some beautiful bok choy on hand and looked in this book for a recipe and, lo and behold, there was an easy one for which I had all the ingredients already on hand. I trimmed and rinsed the choy,... read more >

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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

By Alice B. Toklas, M. F. K. Fisher, Sir Francis Rose
Harpercollins - 1984

For reading perhaps more than cooking from, this edition is introduced by none other than M.F.K. Fisher herself, who declares that: "I know now as well as I did thirty years ago that Alice B. Toklas' Cook Book would feed my soul abundantly if I could find no other nourishment, just as it would make me smile in the midst of sadness, and feel braver if I risked faltering. It is a good book, 'abundantly satisfying, imagination being as lively as it is....'" The lady has spoken.