Crazy Dumplings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Dumplings. Wontons. Jiaozi. This remarkably simple food is found throughout Asia and in Chinese restaurants and kitchens around the world, but have you ever filled a dumpling wrapper with chicken? Lobster? North American Plains Bison? Hardly anyone has! The Crazy Dumplings Cookbook features over 100 recipes with some of the craziest and most delicious dumpling filling recipes you will ever see. From Chicken Taquito Dumplings to Timey-Wimey Dumplings to a dumpling for your dog, Crazy Dumplings will show you all the crazy things you can stuff into a dumpling wrapper for an easy meal or snack.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Roberts's eclectic dumpling cookbook covers a variety of fillings, from traditional pork to tacos and cheesecake. She is an American expatriate who has been living in China for four years; her recipe attempt to respect local traditions and the foods she has come to love while recreating her comfort foods from home. In this manner, she shows readers how she can turn almost anything into a dumpling filling and make a tasty meal for two. By providing a single dumpling wrapper recipe, she frees herself (and her readers) to consider non-traditional fillings, as well as a variety of sauces. Roberts makes readers think about the versatility of dumplings in a new way. However, readers are bombarded with so many different recipes, most of which are requests from Kickstarter backers, that they have no idea what is worth making and what is not; and the recipes all start to blend together, especially with her overly succinct directions. She provides good notes on metric conversions and some of her research around dumplings, but there is very little of the theory of what makes dumpling fillings work (or not), so readers will likely feel a little overwhelmed. Roberts covers a lot of ground, but she does it without much depth. (BookLife)
