My Kitchen Table: 100 Quick Stir-fry Recipes

Published by BBC Books, 2011, softcover, illustrated, index, 208 pages, condition: new..

Ken Hom is the nation's favourite Chinese chef and this is his collection of his best 100 stir-fry recipes.

With everything from chicken recipes to vegetarian curries, healthy recipes and food for entertaining friends, modern and traditional, plus appetisers, salads, snacks and side dishes, this cookbook offers an amazing range of tastes, ingredients and styles - all made in the wok.

The author, Hom,  was raised in Chicago, Illinois, by his widowed mother, Ying Fong, after his father died when Hom was eight months old. Hom first learned cooking at the age of eleven when he worked in his uncle's Chinese restaurant.He went to California to study History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

During this time he taught Italian cooking lessons at weekends to supplement his college fees. This led him on to teach Chinese cookery classes. In 1977 he was invited to join San Francisco's new California Culinary Academy as an instructor.