Dumplings Equal Love: Delicious Recipes from Around the World

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You can make dumplings a weeknight staple—and this cookbook will show you how with 40 easy but innovative dumpling recipes from around the globe.

Shumai, gyoza, mandu, komber, pierogis: a dumpling by any other name would taste as comforting. The original comfort food in every culture, the humble dumpling takes center stage in this beautiful cookbook. Author Liz Crain offers up beloved staples—with easy, step-by-step instructions for dumpling skins and fillings—and regional favorites, including:
 
Classics:
• Chinese soup dumplings and shumai
• Japanese gyoza
• Eastern European pierogi
• Italian goat cheese arrabbiata

Regional:
• Northwest American morel sherry cream
• Cincinnati Chili
• Shrimp & Grits
• Nettle & Caramelized Onions
• Bananas Foster  
 
With 40 recipes, full-color photographs—plus vegan, gluten-free, and kid-friendly options—Dumplings Equals Love is the perfect gift for the foodie or home cook in your life.

“Liz Crain is one of my favorite food writers, and her first solo cookbook, Dumplings Equal Love, is informative, fun, and filled with easy-to-follow and delicious dumpling recipes from around the world.” - David Gutowski, creator of the blog Largehearted Boy

“WE LOVE THIS BOOK! It is perfect for the serious cook (like Ann) and for the nowhere cook (like Stephen). It is a simple guide to huge flavors and what feels like endless variety. The book lays out the path through the forest to a world of eating we never would have tried on our own. Thank you. Thank you. Fun. Easy. Delicious.” - Ann Tobolowsky, actor and director; and Stephen Tobolowsky, actor, writer, and cocreator of The Tobolowsky Files podcast

“If we are being perfectly honest here, dough scares me. Reading Dumplings Equal Love left me inspired and confident to mix, roll, and stuff some dough. Liz Crain's easy style and gentle instruction had me convinced I could do this. Dumplings Equal Love is a recipe rich global journey with encouragement and permission to create your own rainbow of dumplings. So I did, deliciously and successfully.” - Kirsten K. Shockey, author of four fermentation books including bestselling Fermented Vegetables and award-winning Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments

“I love dumplings, and Liz Crain makes them easy, accessible, and fun!” - Sandor Ellix Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, The Art of Fermentation, and Fermentation as Metaphor

“Crain's perfectly-timed new cookbook shows how making dumplings can bring almost as much comfort as eating them.” - The Oregonian

"Most people know me for barbecue, but I have an abiding love — make that obsession — for dumplings. Liz Crain walks you step-by-step through their preparation, bringing uncommon passion and creativity to her recipes in what may be the most charming book on dumplings ever written. I only wish she did takeout!" - Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible cookbook series and host of Project Fire and Project Smoke on PBS

Liz Crain often writes on Pacific Northwest food and drink, and is the coauthor of Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull (McSweeney's, 2013), author of Food Lover's Guide to Portland (Hawthorne Books, 2014), coauthor of Hello! My Name is Tasty: Global Diner Favorites from Portland's Tasty Restaurants with John Gorham (Sasquatch Books, 2017) and coauthor of Grow Your Own: Understanding, Cultivating, and Enjoying Cannabis with Nichole Graf, Micah Sherman, and David Stein (Tin House Books, 2017). She is the editor of True Portland: The Unofficial Guide for Creative People (Hawthorne Books, 2017). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Food and Wine, The Sun, the Guardian, Cooking Light, and The Progressive. Crain is also co-organizer of the annual Portland Fermentation Festival.

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