Chop-Chop Chinese Fare
May, 1963
The True Genius of Chinese Chefs has always been their limitless flair for improvising. In old China, the lowliest cook could take an ordinary onion omelet and with a few spices transform it into a celestial delicacy. Foraging Chinese soldiers would climb almost inaccessible ocean cliffs to bring down swallows' nests and convert them into birds'-nest soup. After they had eaten all of a shark's meat, Chinese fishermen found they could steam the fins into a ravishing broth.When the Chinese General...
