Asian Vegetables
Gardening. Cooking. Storytelling.
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
While bok choy is now a staple on Western grocery store shelves, other Asian vegetables remain unknown—even though they’re delicious, nutritious, and easy to grow in northern climates.
Caroline, Stéphanie, and Patricia Wang, three sisters of Cantonese descent, have made it their mission to introduce gardeners, cooks, and vegetable lovers of all flavours to wider sources of sustenance.
Organized around fifteen Asian vegetables that are presented according to the rhythm of the seasons, this lush, full-colour book offers advice on growing and harvesting organic crops intended for both weekend and commercial gardeners, along with a host of ideas to preserve and prepare them, including over forty recipes, some of which have been developed by renowned chefs.
The Wang sisters complement the book’s practical advice by offering thoughts on Asian vegetables from a cultural point of view and sharing the importance of these foods within their own family, members of whom left China to immigrate to Madagascar before settling in Canada.
Asian Vegetables is a generous and gorgeous tribute to good food, to the land, and the importance of strong roots.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This cookbook and gardening guide aims to demystify delicious Asian vegetables that may be unfamiliar to you. Canadian sisters of Cantonese descent Stéphanie, Caroline, and Patricia Wang (an organic farmer, nutritionist, and artist, respectively) focus on 15 common vegetables that will grow easily in home gardens across Canada. From dim sum staples like gai lan to Japan’s mint-like shiso, each plant is presented with growing tips, nutrition information, and basic preparation guides. And then there are recipes by Asian-inspired chefs from around the world created to highlight their wonderful flavors. (The sticky rice with bok choy is certain to become a cold-weather comfort staple.) Throughout, the sisters detail their commitment to sustainability and organic farming—and the full-page photographs are absolutely mouthwatering.
