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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
nick 30:
not sure yet about this book, looks as if it was really written with the professional in mind, though i'm hoping that there may be something in there for me to use, i haven't been thru all of it yet to be able to tell for sure. on the other hand, as the book suggests, it would be a nice resource to bring to your tcm doctor and ask them to recommend certain recipes for you.
Health and longevity nutrition spanning 2,000 years:
It is very difficult to find diet and nutrition books today that are based on real science. (Read my review on The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight to see how the history of nutrition, diets, and health in America has been largely based on psuedo-science and driven by financial greed, not health improvement.) In my decades of searching, I have only found a few. Bob Flaws authors 2 of them. The Book of Jook presents the congee or jook diet - a traditional food in China... more info
Amazing that there is a TCM book devoted to "Jook," Cantonese for rice soup:
Every Chinese family is familiar with "Jook" or "Shi fan" in Mandarin. You grew up with it as an integral part of a cold or flu therapy. Even when you were feigning a cold to play hookey from school, out came the clanking jook pot by your grandma or amah! Then the jars of magic ingredients...hidden in a back cupboard. In a few hours you would be called to the table or served a big bowl of rice soup in bed. Depending on how sick you were, different ingredients were added, selected by the cook for its TCM... more info
Too technical for the lay person.:
This book is too technical to use unless you are a Chinese Herbalist. Also the recipes use ingredients to which only a professional would have access.
