New Asian Cuisine

Book excerpt: For Asian food aficionados, your time has arrived and so has the cookbook you have been waiting for ? New Asian Cuisine: Fabulous Recipes from Celebrity Chefs. This new cookbook features more than 200 recipes from over 90 celebrity chefs, Asian and non-Asian, and presents the Asian version of the new USDA food pyramid. The Asian Food Pyramid was created with the help of Professor Michael Pardus, Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE). Recipes that follow these guidelines in the book are labeled with the pyramid logo. Participating celebrity chefs from around the world include Nobu Matsuhisa, Ming Tsai, Martin Yan, Norman Van Aken, Roy Yamaguchi, Ian Chalermkittichai, Anita Lo, Todd English, Sanjeev Kapoor (India), Mario Lohninger (Germany), Tseng Hsiu-Pao (Taiwan), Carol Selva Rajah (Sydney), Paul Rankin (Ireland), Pauline Loh (Singapore), Kwong Wai Keung (Hong Kong), An Jung-Hyun (Korea), Didier Corlou (Vietnam), Mari Fuji (Japan), Susur Lee (Canada) as well as members of the Asian Chefs Association.