The Book of Jook: Chinese Medicinal Porridges--A Healthy Alternative to the Typical Western Breakfast - Softcover

Bob Flaws

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936185600 ISBN 13: 9780936185606

Publisher: Blue Poppy Press, 1995

Synopsis

These Chinese medicinal porridges - called jook in Cantonese and congee or porridge in English - can be a healthy alternative to the typical Western breakfast. Cooked in a crockpot overnight and combining specific grains, vegetables, meats, eggs, or various Chinese herbs, there are medicinal porridges for every type of ailment. Included are hundreds of herbal porridge recipes for both prevention and remedial purposes. This book is great for laypersons as well as professional readers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Although this style of eating has been common in Asia for millennia, it is a new idea in the West and one from which we can learn a great deal.

From the Author:

When I was studying Chinese medicine in China, I loved to eat traditional Chinese breakfasts centered around the kinds of porridges described in this book. They tasted great and I felt wonderful. As a professional practitioner of Chinese medicine, my patients often tell me that breakfast is their most problematic meal. Once one knows how easy to make and how good for you Chinese congees are, breakfast can be the foundation of the entire day's health rather than its ruination.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Poppy Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0936185600
• ISBN 13: 9780936185606
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225