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combinations of food ingredients and flavors which many, many years' experience
on the part of different peoples has taught them. It is naturally, harmoniously
and easily done, and is dependent for its successful result on good and
wholesome ideas in general cooking, and anyone with a little courage can do it,
too, without minutely following the given guide in the recipes.
Oriental cookery is valued not only because of its economy, because one can get
the most out of the least material used in the preparation of a food, but it is
also recognized and esteemed for its general body-building and nourishing
character, and although it is solid and substantial, it is often dainty as well.
In Oriental cooking, not a single dish is dependent on the extravagant use of
expensive and various ingredients which, when counted up, make food very
expensive, but it is dependent, and very much so, on the flavor of each
different article used in the making thereof. For those, therefore, who are fond
of plain food, but of the kind that puts an extra layer of fat on the consumer,
Oriental cooking is especially recommended.
Successful Oriental cooking is based on the
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