The Art of Escapism Cooking

By Mandy Lee,

Book cover of The Art of Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors

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…

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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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