soups, porridge, stews, and juices: 500 recipes

Author: Zhang Jialin
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features:
· 150 recipes for vegetable soups, fruit soups, poultry soups, and aquatic soups;
· 150 recipes for nutritious porridge, vegetable and fruit porridge, and tonic porridge;
· 120 recipes for vegetable pottages, fruit pottages, and aquatic pottages;
· 80 recipes for vegetable juices and fruit juices.
Traditional Chinese dietary therapy is one of the treasures of traditional Chinese medicine. For thousands of years, it has made significant contributions to the prosperity and development of the Chinese nation. Since ancient times, China has upheld the tradition of "medicines and foods sharing the same origin" and "medicine and cooking being interconnected." As early as the Warring States period, the medical classic Huangdi Neijing proposed the views that "when diagnosing a disease, one must inquire about the patient's diet and living conditions" and "Heaven nourishes people with five qi, and the earth nourishes people with five flavors." It also summarized the dietary preparation principle: "Poisons attack pathogens, while grains serve as nourishment, fruits as assistance, livestock as benefits, and vegetables as replenishment. When their flavors are harmonized and taken together, they can replenish and strengthen vital energy." This has had a significant guiding role in the development of later traditional Chinese dietary therapy and medicinal dietetics.
With the development of society and the improvement of people's living standards, people are increasingly emphasizing nutrition and the science of eating. Transforming bitter medicine into palatable food and turning ordinary daily meals into medicinal diets that promote health and treat diseases is now a burgeoning trend. Soups, porridge, pottages, and juices, as an important part of medicinal diets, have always been valued by health practitioners. This is because they not only offer the advantages of simple preparation, rich and savory flavors, abundant nutrition, and easy digestion but also possess medicinal benefits such as preventing and treating diseases and strengthening the body to extend life. As a result, they are particularly favored by the general public, especially children, the elderly, and patients.
The book 500 Soup, Porridge, Pottage, and Juice Recipes is rich in content, easy to understand, simple to operate, highly practical, and enjoyable for both the refined and the common. It can serve as a reference for cooking enthusiasts, housewives, professionals engaged in nutrition and dietary therapy research, as well as patients with various diseases.