Nina Simonds, Author . Knopf $35 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-41160-1
For many home chefs, reading through most cookbooks is a bit like perusing some high-end fashion magazine: an exercise in aspiration—you'll never get around to making that Boeuf en Croute, but it's nice to imagine a world in which you...
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Nina Simonds, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-395-36802-2
This book is not meant to introduce Chinese cookery but to provide a feast of exciting, complex sensory adventures for those already familiar with the culinary style. A companion volume to Simonds's Classic Chinese Cuisine, this work offers recipes...
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Nina Simonds, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-688-11478-7
Simonds ( Chinese Seasons ) just might put Chinese takeout out of business. Her goal, she tells us, was to create recipes that would make Chinese cooking practical for the average cook, who is short on time. And so she's streamlined the time-consumin
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Nina Simonds. Rodale, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60529-322-6
Delivering on all she promises, Simonds (A Spoonful of Ginger; Spices of Life), an expert on Asian cuisine, emphasizes the importance of convenience: stocking the pantry with Asian staples; shopping on the weekends; preparing grains, marinades, and...
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Nina Simonds, Author, Leslie Swartz, Author, Boston The Children's Museum, Author Harcourt Children's Books $21 (80p) ISBN 978-0-15-201983-9
In Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Nina Simonds, Leslie Swartz and the Children's Museum, Boston, illus. by Meilo So, each of a quartet of holidays includes a brief background and
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Nina Simonds, Author, Han-Zhu Simonds, Joint Author, Beatriz Da Costa, Photographer Alfred A. Knopf $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-40036-0
Diverging from what she believes is the Western tendency to regard food as the ""enemy,"" Asian food authority Simonds (Classic Chinese Cuisine; Asian Noodles) has compiled a cookbook espousing the Asian holistic philosophy of food as a ""nurturing,
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