title: A Little Heart and Soul Cooking: Recipes and Stories From My Kitchen
author:  Melanie Joyner Smith 
description: Born in North Carolina in the 1960's, this author has grown up with all the southern cooking traditions that are passed from generation to generation. Married now to a southern gentleman that grew up with a Greek mother only makes the food out of their kitchen that much better. Clinical Research Nurse by day and chef by night. This author has always dreamed of writing her own cookbook. Finally that dream is becoming a reality with A Little Heart and Soul Cooking. The first of a series of recipes and stories from her kitchen that will give you a little look into where and/or how these recipes came to be. The second volume is already in the works with lots of recipes and more stories.
zlib_text: irene’s peranakan recipes
  Copyright © 2006 Irene Yeo
  Published in Singapore by Epigram Books
  www.epigrambooks.sg
  National Library Board
  Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
  Irene, 1938-2004
  Irene's Peranakan Recipes. - Singapore : Epigram, c2006.
  p. cm.
  ISBN 978-981-05-7015-6
  ISBN 978-981-07-3271-4 (epub)
  1. Cookery, Peranakan. I. Title
  TX724.5.S55
  641.59597 -- dc22 SLS2006047186
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior consent from the
  publisher.
  First Edition
  
   
   
   
  SHE THREW HERSELF INTO COOKING, sewing, flower arrangement
  and gardening. Her two fiercest passions – which I never inherited – were
  cooking and flower arrangement. She sewed almost anything and
  everything she could get her hands on: the curtains in the house, fancy
  clothes for my sister and me, our school uniforms. She arranged flowers to
  transform the house, landscaped our garden, and entertained friends with
  her famed cooking – on top of a full-time job. Thinking about Mothe