Customer Reviews

Heart and Soul

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I was first introduced to Kylie Kwong through her cooking show on the Discover Home channel. On her show, she's always cooking these warm, savory soup dishes with lots of veggies, fish and seafood. Her cooking seems very simple, but this cookbook is anything but.

The recipes it contains are complex and filled with exotic ingredients that i doubt I could even find at my local Whole Foods. There wasn't even a simple seafood soup recipe listed. I flipped through the entire book, and made my final decision after flipping to the one of the last recipes in the book, octopus something-or-other. I'm out.

Kylie Kwong seems very nice, and she has a great cooking show, but this book is a complete departure from the food we see her prepare on TV.

I love this book. The stories are wonderful, recipes very user friendly.
photography is delightful.........buy it & use it !

i am hooked on kylie's cookbook.i wish she got her own dvds too.i am sure all her fans will really like it.the ingredients she uses in her books are so easy stuff.

I love Kylie Kwong and this cookbook is one of my favorites. Her global Asian approach to food preparation has taken my cooking to a whole new level. I have introduced products that were unfamiliar to me like Chinese Red and Black Vinegars, Palm Sugar, Kecap Manis and Chinese Cooking Wine, to my existing recipes which has taken my dishes to a whole new level. I love the direction my food has taken!!!! This is a great book.

This book is a complement to her weekly show on Discovery Channel. I have done many of her recipes and I am very please with both the program and her book. The program and her book both has an exotic quality to it. And both are well done. I recommended both hightly.
7/10/10
This is an extra comment. I am making quite often the poached chicken. She called it, Satin chicken and this name really define the texture of the chicken cooked this way. It is so delicious that I find myself ready to eat more than half, so good this is! The white of the bird that is usually stringy and dry, cooked this way is now soft and pure ambrosia. But one has to follow to the letter her direction, if not the results are not quite as good.

I was hoping for a book more based on Kylie's TV show. The ingredients in this books were too exotic. I want to be able to find most of the ingredients in our local supermarket. I ended up returning the book because I couldn't find one recipe I would even try.

I started watching Kylie's show on Discovery home channel, and I love her recipes, and besides, she's so cute. I can't wait to try the Steamboat recipe, as well as many other dishes in the book. It's wildly creative, and has great color photos as well as recipes and stories. As a matter of fact, I think I'll go buy her other cookbook as well. Kylie, you've got a lot of new fans in America. I love this book.

Another stunning cookbook from Kylie. This recipe book also has a narrative about the making of the tv show which inspired the book. The recipes are again outstsanding, they include cuisines from other cultures but done with a chinese twist.

I am a darn good home cook and have lived and cooked around the world. This book (I do like her show) has really complicated receipes with ingredients you can't find anywhere I've lived. Also, they are more French then Chinese and honestly not really appetizing.

I was impressed with her North African Lamb Shank Stew made in a tangine... I found all the ingredients via the internet... if you want to try something it's not hard to find the ingredients... I even made the stew in a tangine exactly as she did on her show "Heart & Soul" It was superb. Don't be afraid to explore the internet to find the exotic ingredients or did you think you'd find everything you need to cook her exotic food in a "Whole Foods" store? Wake up and smell the spices.