Anybody got a recomendation on a Hunan cookbook?

So yesterday I was bored with my usual cooking but feeling too poor to go out, and decided to try my hand at General Tso’s chicken. I kind of winged it, with what I figured was in it usually. We don’t need to go into details, but it was a less then overwhelming success. A C- effort at best, a bit on the bland side, and the flavors just didn’t meld. But it’s not really important, I could look up 1000 recipes on the web if I wanted to make it again.

But like Tso’s, in general I love every Hunan based dish I have ever had at a Chinese restaurant. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be very popular, other than a dish or two at Schezwan places. I Iwould love to check out the original dishes. Does anyone have experience with a Hunan Cookbook they would recommend? Or As it going to be frustrating experience of having to hunt down 15 bottles of this and that for each authentic-ish dish I want to try?

“To Serve Man”.

Oh, wait. Misread that as “Human”, rather than “Hunan”.

I don’t, but if I ever write one, it’ll be called “Oh, The Hunanity!”
To contribute, I haven’t used it, but this book seems well-reviewed.

I came in here to say that. Almost verbatim. :slight_smile:

Ditto. Are we pathetic?

“To Serve 'nan” is the obvious gag here.

Well, you could always try Jeffery Dahmer’s cookbook. d&r

And here, I waited to open this thread until it had a few replies, because I didn’t want to lead off with that joke.

Sure are a lot of us, then. :slight_smile: