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Table of Contents | The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen INTRODUCTION Notes to the Reader Remember China, Nan Chung   Three generations of the Young family. Canton, China, circa 1934     MASTERING THE FUNDAMENTALS The Meaning of Rice The Breath of A Wok The Art of Steaming Shreds of Ginger Like Blade of Grass Going to Market with Mama Cooking as a Meditation  THE ART OF CELEBRATION The Good Omen of a Fighting Fish New Year's Foods and Traditions A Day Lived as if in China Dutiful Daughter Returns Home     Baba demonstrates the art of shredding ginger. ACHIEVING YIN-YANG HARMONY Cooking as a Healing Art Baba's Mama's Dong Quai and Restorative Foods Shopping Like a Sleuth Glossary Copyright 2004. Graceyoung.com. All rights reserved. All photographs except for those of the family and where otherwise indicated are copyrighted by Alan Richardson. No photograph on this website can be downloaded, reproduced, or used in any way without written permission of the photographer. Site design by mimi