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.
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Never received it !!:
Well, I've not received the book although I paid for it !!!! I don't know whose fault it is... And you ask me to rate this item - I cannot give even one star but, apparently, it is not possible either.... So I'm forced to give 1 star but it's too much !!! Beata Pieczonka
France
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.
Rare Information in the West:
This book is specific to a very specialized diet, for example, if you are sick, the recipes have some rare, odd ingredients. The Book of Jook is very handy for those practicing Chinese medicine or Medical Qigong. It is easy to read and understand what steps to make congee for various health restoring and body purifying and toning purposes. The Book of Jook may be a bit hard core for a person trying to do something such as convert to healthy vegetarian eating, but for the specific uses described... more info
