''Along with fried rice, tomato-and-egg is the stir-fry often recommended as a gateway dish to learning how to cook Chinese,'' writes Betty Liu in ''The Chinese Way.'' Liu says that it's the dish many ...

Sauces were created from our constant need to make things tastier. In the early days of cooking, sauces were used to mask the flavor of tainted foods when meats and other proteins didn’t last long ...