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The Five Elements Cookbook: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine with Recipes for Everyday Healing Hardcover – February 14, 2023

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A stunning and accessible guide to cooking with Traditional Chinese Medicine, featuring over 50 nourishing recipes to eat for healing every day by TCM chef and registered dietitian Zoey Xinyi Gong.

Chef and registered dietitian Zoey Xinyi Gong offers an incredibly fresh, elegant, and authentic approach to food therapy and a truly accessible guide to cooking with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a thousands-year-old practice for holistic wellness.

Named after a foundational theory of what balance and optimal health looks like, The Five Elements Cookbook is a stunning introduction to the beginner concepts of TCM and offers a photographic guide to the most commonly used medicinal ingredients (American ginseng, turmeric, reishi, and more), their healing properties, and how to use them seamlessly in your cooking—whether in a warm tea, restorative bone broth, a sweet smoothie, or your favorite dinner.  

Each of the over 50 delicious recipes ingeniously incorporates a food-as-medicine ingredient, with consideration for seasonality, digestion, and body constitution, and specific concerns, like menstrual pains, nausea, anxiety, blood circulation, respiratory health, and more. For those with dietary restrictions, each recipe also includes a key for vegan, nut free, dairy free, gluten free, plus the TCM energetics and uses. Recipes span all day and every meal, plus beverages and desserts:

  • Sesame Goji Granola
  • Pumpkin and Lotus Seed Hummus with Crudité
  • Reishi Mushroom Miso Soup
  • Steamed Whole Fish with Herbal Soy Sauce
  • Warming Lamb Noodle Soup
  • Saffron Mulled Wine

With beautiful photographs throughout, this soothing, practical guide is perfect for those looking to eat for healing, nourishment, and joy.

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The Five Elements Cookbook

HEMP SEED AND TAHINI SALAD

PUMPKIN AND LOTUS SEED HUMMUS

SHANGHAINESE SWEETEND SOUR PORK

HEMP SEED AND TAHINI SALAD

PUMPKIN AND LOTUS SEED HUMMUS

SHANGHAINESE SWEETEND SOUR PORK

SAFFRON MULLED WINE

SHISO RICE ROLLS WITH SHISO PESTO

CALMING PAPAYA SMOOTHIE

SAFFRON MULLED WINE

SHISO RICE ROLLS WITH SHISO PESTO

CALMING PAPAYA SMOOTHIE

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The path toward modernizing or contemporizing ideas is through understanding the past. To grasp the philosophy of Chinese cuisine, one must begin with the intermingling of nourishment and medicine with food. Zoey gifts us with her deep knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine and how it can be utilized, even cross-culturally, in her recipes in The Five Elements Cookbook. I have found myself becoming more interested in TCM, and I am thankful to have this book now as a resource. The graphs and charts make the subject matter much easier to absorb, and the photos are a really useful reference for how to find these ingredients if you are shopping in Chinatown. When food is delicious and gives you health benefits, meals become more purposeful. — Brandon Jew, executive chef and owner of Mister Jiu’s and author of Mister Jiu’s in Chinatown

The Five Elements Cookbook is a wonderful introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine food therapy. The section on Chinese herbs is an indispensable guide and beautifully photographed. — Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge and The Breath of a Wok

I am simply blown away by how wonderful The Five Elements Cookbook is. It is well researched, beautifully photographed, and, most important, practical. I am so excited for readers to roll up their sleeves and try the recipes! — Thomas N. Leung, DACM, CEO of Kamwo Meridian Herbs

The Five Elements Cookbook is a revelation—not just for how to cook using the elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine but also for how to think holistically about cooking and eating in a way that takes into account the needs of each individual. The book is a beautiful rumination on being in sync with nature and has served as a guide for me to view the world through fresh eyes. Even something as seemingly simple as the idea of opposition in ingredients being relative—to allow for the shifting of flavors depending on positionality and context—has been part of a new set of vocabulary and frameworks for me to think through my approach to food. This book has already been a fixture in my kitchen, and I can’t wait to read it over and over again. — Jenny Dorsey, chef, writer, and founder of Studio ATAO

Finally! A modern guide to incorporating traditional Chinese food therapy into our lives, with fun, creative, and simple recipes that will help you lead a healthier, more delicious life. — Danielle Chang, founder and CEO of LUCKYRICE

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvest (February 14, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0358622190
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0358622192
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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This book is a life saver
It's much more than just a cookbook. Zoey Gong does an excellent job of teaching a crash course on the principles and theory of TCM, some of the most common herbs in TCM and their contribution to your health, the benefits of TCM including personal examples of having seen and studied the difference between both the Eastern and Western view of healing, AND sample recipes, AND encouragement to find local recipes that will would for you."...It's okay if you love spicy fried chicken and cannot give it up. Based on food therapy, you can drink a Cooling and Dampness-reducing herbal tea, like Chrysanthemum and Coix Seed, to counteract the Heat and oil from the chicken, and consciously add more Cooling, watery foods to your diet..."
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Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars Best cookbook I’ve ever seen / had
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So I’m really not one for reviews, but I had to write one. If I tried to find the words to describe just how much this cookbook has been lighting me up, I’d be here all day. It’s truly reignited my interest in cooking. Zoey has managed to create a work of art - it’s rich with information, yet so accessible to a newcomer like myself. The recipes are easy to follow and deeply nourishing. And of course, visually, the presentation is just beautiful… I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It can simply be an introduction to some new, delicious dishes… or an invitation to deepen our relationship with our bodies & the natural world around us ~ through the daily ritual of meals. What could be better… my deep gratitude to the chef & author ~ bravo, Zoey! We look forward to your next creation, whatever that may be!
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 I love this book, there are so many beautiful photos that make you even more inspired to make the dishes and there’s so much information about Traditional Chinese Medicine as a whole that is extremely helpful in understanding how to tailor the ingredients to your own needs
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I love this book, there are so many beautiful photos that make you even more inspired to make the dishes and there’s so much information about Traditional Chinese Medicine as a whole that is extremely helpful in understanding how to tailor the ingredients to your own needs
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It's much more than just a cookbook. Zoey Gong does an excellent job of teaching a crash course on the principles and theory of TCM, some of the most common herbs in TCM and their contribution to your health, the benefits of TCM including personal examples of having seen and studied the difference between both the Eastern and Western view of healing, AND sample recipes, AND encouragement to find local recipes that will would for you.

"...It's okay if you love spicy fried chicken and cannot give it up. Based on food therapy, you can drink a Cooling and Dampness-reducing herbal tea, like Chrysanthemum and Coix Seed, to counteract the Heat and oil from the chicken, and consciously add more Cooling, watery foods to your diet..."
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It's much more than just a cookbook. Zoey Gong does an excellent job of teaching a crash course on the principles and theory of TCM, some of the most common herbs in TCM and their contribution to your health, the benefits of TCM including personal examples of having seen and studied the difference between both the Eastern and Western view of healing, AND sample recipes, AND encouragement to find local recipes that will would for you.

"...It's okay if you love spicy fried chicken and cannot give it up. Based on food therapy, you can drink a Cooling and Dampness-reducing herbal tea, like Chrysanthemum and Coix Seed, to counteract the Heat and oil from the chicken, and consciously add more Cooling, watery foods to your diet..."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I was looking for!
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023
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I never leave reviews ever. But I wanted to take a moment to say that this book is amazing! Great for people who are new to TCM, and a perfect aid for those familiar with it and want to incorporate it into their cooking.

I work at an acupuncture clinic and I’m very amazed at what information and recipes this book has to offer. Finding resources for TCM nutrition + a reliable cookbook in one place can be a challenge. I’ve been searching high and low for an easy and reliable guide for TCM cooking—even the seasoned acupuncturist I work for couldn’t make a solid recommendation because there were too many to choose from but none had a comprehensive guide for specific constitutions with included recipes. But now we have it!

Zoey Xinyi Gong delivered stellar work and research. I’m very happy to have this in my collection and will be recommending it to our patients.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very straightforward, some ingredients are accessible; some I am looking for suggestions to find?
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I like this book and some of the recipe ingredients seem readily available, Some do not. Are there suggestions on where to purchase clean, ingredients that are unique to this type of oooking? Thanks.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for TCM newcomers or seasoned homecooks
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After reading about this book in Food & Wine magazine I instantly preordered it. I am fairly new to the world of TCM however I do know a little about Ayurvedic cooking and would consider myself a skilled home chef. I devoured the contents of this book in a few hours. It gives a great overview of TCM history and practices. It also breaks down many of the herbs used in the practice. I have yet to make any of the recipes but they all look delicious and don’t look like they would give me any issues. The ingredients are traditional, so if you live in a remote place this book may be tricky. But here in California we have easy access to many Asian markets (my local farmers market even has an Asian vendor who has many of the vegetables mentioned). Can’t wait to cook some of the recipes and see if someone of the herbs recommended help with a few health issues I have :)
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fantastic delivery , and top quality book , cannot wait to get started .... this is the future cooking
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