Trend, Health Preservation and Fun of Cooking

A book of diet therapy compiled by professional chefs and doctors of traditional Chinese medicine.The ancestral home of both authors is Chaozhou. Chaozhou people always pay special attention to dietary health preservation from daily tea drinking to food matching. Dietary regimen in traditional Chinese medicine is more concerned about "e;three causes, two meanings and one taboo"e;. This book combines medicine and food specialties and carefully selects forty-one dishes, including soups, meat and vegetarian dishes, staple foods and snacks, all of which are attached with description of dietary regimen efficacy, food appropriateness and taboos, deconstruction of main food materials, food selection analysis according to physique. There is also a detailed introduction of main food materials/medicines in each dish.Before entering the process of cooking dishes, there is a detailed chapter of including health preservation in food which explains the relationship between Chaozhou's food system and health preservation. There is also a scale of "e;Self-Recognition and Measurement of Nine Physique Types"e; helping readers understand their own physique and an appendix "e;Quick Checklist of Ordering Dishes According to Physical"e; facilitating people to order dishes according to physique when eating out, so as to achieve the goal of dietary regimen suitable to different persons.