Feng Shui Kitchen [Paperback]

Lam Kam Chuen (Author), Lam Kai Sin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2000

For Feng Shui followers or anyone looking for a more enlightened eating experience, Feng Shui Kitchen outlines all the essentials of turning a kitchen into a beautiful sanctuary of healing and harmony. For the first time in one volume, here are invaluable techniques on kitchen arrangement, planning and preparing meals, eating in accordance with the seasons, and many more basic principles of the Feng Shui way of life. Exquisite four-color artwork and photography, along with easy-to-follow text, allows readers to turn the eating experience from one of simple nourishment to divine healing.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Feng Shui Kitchen" covers the basics, from how to use chopsticks, cleavers, and chopping boards to the proper preparation and maintenance of the wok and the necessary ingredients for a well-stocked pantry.

The recipes, fortunately, are not so exotic that they are difficult to prepare. Dishes, vegetarian and meat, are organized according to the four seasons--scallion pancakes and steamed fish with ginger in the spring; stir-fried spinach in summer, and eggplant with black bean sauce for fall. Variations on the recipes are provided alongside the basic preparation, which are amply illustrated with color photographs and watercolors to augment our understanding. (Beliefnet, July 2000) -- From Beliefnet

About the Author

Master Lam is an international authority on a wide range of Chinese arts, including traditional Chinese medicine, Feng Shui, tai chi, and chi kung, all of which he has been teaching in the West for more than two decades. His four previous books include: The Way of Energy, Step-by-Step Tai Chi, The Feng Shui Handbook, and The Personal Feng Shui Manual. Lam Kai Sin, Master Lam's wife, is an accomplished martial artist and the manager of Immortals Restaurant in London's Chinatown.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Journey Editions; First edition. edition (April 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885203934
• ISBN-13: 978-1885203939
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #912,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #59 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > How-to & Home Improvements > Remodeling & Renovation > Kitchens

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A reader from New York, March 24, 2000

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This review is from: Feng Shui Kitchen (Paperback)

I found the book fun and interesting. I saw it in a friends kitchen picked it up and found it very informative. In a world of so many toxins, genetically engineered food we need more books like this. I have since bought the book myself, it has opened a new way of looking at food for me and made me do more research into what I eat!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reader from the Colorado Mountains, October 23, 2003

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Cindy H. Stone "[e-mail]" (Conifer, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feng Shui Kitchen (Paperback)

What complete focus on the kitchen where no other feng shui books have gone. The authors share their own unique insights accumulated from the vast wisdom of their teachers for the past 30 years, experience in owning their own restaurant in London (among all places) called the Immortals and being masters of Chinese marital arts where natural energies and wisdom pearl out of our bodies in the gentlest form.

In a clear, step by step, slow pace each aspect of food and the kitchen is harmoniously discussed. From food cultivation to transportation to preparation to cooking and finally consumption on the table; kitchen landscape and design including placement of electric appliances, storage of foods, selection of flooring, counters and cabinets; eating with nature of the four seasons, and brilliant explation of balancing of five elements of fire, earth, water, air and wood. Also includes easy to follow healthful and easy to obtain recipes.

When the USDA is questioning the food pyramid that has collapsed before us Americans, may they be inspired to look at the root cause of our imbalances which lie heavily in the food we consume.