The Vegan Chinese Kitchen (Cookbook by Hannah Che)

Some cookbooks are personal, with both recipes and stories reflecting the experience and creativity of the author, and some are professional, meaning they are highly researched and reported, often from the perspective of a trained chef. Our favorite cookbooks are the ones that pull off both approaches, and The Vegan Chinese Kitchen is a stellar contribution to that group. What's more, it's the only one of its kind in English devoted solely to plant-based dishes and the history of vegetarian eating in China.  The subtitle, Recipes and Modern Stories From a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition, tells you how serious Hannah Che took her mission. It all started when she decided to become vegan during college, to her Chinese family's bewilderment. But it grew from there to include training in Guangzhou at China's only professional vegetarian culinary school, a stint in Taiwan for up-close exposure to Buddhist vegetarian cooking, and a deep dive into how vegetarian eating evolved in Chinese culture f