Noodles and Rice and Everything Nice : A Guide to Cooking and Eating Chinese Fashion

Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association, 1950. Hard cover, no DJ, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 87pp. Bound in clean, straight red cloth with sharp black titles on the front cover. Internally clean, firm, and secure with no text markings or highlighting throughout; not ex-library (see images). Notable condition flaws are limited to age-darkening/shadowing on the endpapers from pasteline ghosting from the adjacent pages, and a previous owner's name neatly written at the top of the table of contents page (see images). Book condition: Good plus ( only because of the darkened endpapers; otherwise VG). Compiled from early postwar Chinese cookery classes held at the Hong Kong YWCA, this scarce compilation serves as an influential early English-language guide to traditional Cantonese home cooking. Endorsed by Maurine Grantham (wife of the Governor of Hong Kong), the text features traditional regional recipes alongside dedicated instructional sections explaining the cultural nuances of preparing and eating "Chinese fashion". Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a new box.…