Second Helpings, Please!
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Taste of Old Hong Kong
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Taste of Old Hong Kong
Recipes & Memories from 30 Years on the China Coast
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Reminiscences and recipes of favourite international and regional dishes from households, fancy restaurants and back lanes which you can enjoy today in Hong Kong, that classy old gal who will forever reign as the Queen of Cuisine for all who knew her when she was the jewel of the British Empire. Bestselling author Fred Schneiter shares a nostalgic romp back into that earlier era which has faded into treasured memories and photos. But we didn't lose it all. The tantalising cuisines and tempting cookpot scents of that earlier time remain. Many of them await you here. If you have ever daydreamed about what it might be like to drop back into an earlier, less hurried time in an exotic corner of the world, this is how we found the food, the friends and the fun in old Hong Kong. Features 70 recipes.
Marketing man Fred Schneiter travelled from San Francisco to Asia in the 1960s, and stayed for 30 years. Schneiter starting writing in his teens, and went on to a journalism degree while working as a University News Bureau reporter. He worked for three US newspapers before Korean War service in Troop Information and Education, editing an army newspaper during the occupation of Germany while freelancing a column in the US on the lighter side of army life. Whetting an early appetite for adventure by riding freight trains across America during high school vacations, Schneiter lived and worked in Asia for more than 30 years, covering more than 40 countries in the process, and every province of China. He was in Tiananmen Square the day the tanks moved in, lived in Hong Kong during its final years as a colony, and witnessed first-hand modern China's monumental rise after opening to the West. He's won national awards in communication and management, lectured at Stanford, and was a member of a small group of China Hands invited to testify on US-China trade on Capitol Hill shortly after China's opening to the West.
- ISBN-13
- 9789881613905
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books
- Imprint
- Blacksmith Books (HK)
- Publication date
- 7 October 2013
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 208
- Dimensions
- 216 x 216 mm
- Illustrations
- 18 colour photos
- Language
- English
