Book description
In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with influences from around the world.
For Mandy Lee, moving from New York to Beijing for her husband's…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Art of Escapism Cooking as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I rarely sit down and read a cookbook cover to cover - I flip and skim for interesting-looking recipes.
I hardly ever read memoirs. I have never really cooked Asian food other than the occasional stir fry or spring roll. Sometimes sushi. But somehow, I found myself completely engrossed in Mandy Lee's cookbook, completely obsessed with her story, her journey. But most of all her food.
I initially saw a video of her talking about her egg "duvet" which is basically a soft folded omelet that you just want to curl up inside. That led me to buy her cookbook.…
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