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The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp: Spicy Recipes and Stories from Fly By Jing's Kitchen [A Cookbook] Hardcover – September 26, 2023

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WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD • Explore the “not traditional but personal” Sichuan flavors of Fly By Jing’s cult favorite spicy and savory chili crisp through 85 hot recipes for everything from dumplings to cocktails to desserts.

“A coming-of-age story, a superb collection of recipes and food tales, and for me a very personal testament to the power of persistent entrepreneurial action . . . This book will change your life.”—Andrew Zimmern

A LOS ANGELES TIMES AND GLOBE AND MAIL BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

Born in Chengdu and raised everywhere, chef and entrepreneur Jing Gao has introduced America to the hot, tingly sensation of chili crisp and the Sichuan flavors that inspire it, first through her wildly successful Kickstarter campaign and currently through thousands of grocery stores across the United States. Now, in The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp, Jing shows how nearly every dish can be elevated with Sichuan’s complex flavors, taking you on a unique journey from her hometown to your own kitchen stove, all while sharing her personal story and reflections on this storied cuisine and the challenges she's encountered along the way.

Rooted in tradition but adapted for the modern kitchen, these 85 recipes invite you to explore the nuances of Sichuan flavors and experiment with new ingredients. With gorgeous photography and punchy writing, Jing shows you how to incorporate these flavors in just about everything, including:

• snacks like Zhong Dumplings and Deviled Tea Eggs
• mains like Hongshao Carnitas Tacos, Fish Fragrant Crispy Eggplant, and Spicy Scallion Oil Noodles
• desserts and drinks like Chili Crisp Sundae with Fish Sauce Caramel Brittle, Poached Pear in Sichuan Pepper Syrup, and Baijiu Negroni

The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp is an ode to chili crisp and a story of resilience, breaking free from tradition, and writing new narratives. Grab yourself a jar of Sichuan Chili Crisp and dive in!

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Molly Baz says: Equal parts personal, thoughtful, informative and intoxicatingly delicious

A must have in one’s Asian pantry, says Ching-He Huang M. B. E., chef, author, and TV presenter

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“Jing Gao’s evocative debut cookbook embodies the author’s tenacious, fearless spirit and unrelenting commitment to rewriting the narrative about the possibilities of modern Sichuan flavors. A delicious triumph.”—Hetty Lui McKinnon, food writer and author of five cookbooks including To Asia, With Love and Tenderheart

“In her stunning, bold, debut cookbook, we are invited into Jing's kitchen and her unique perspective on Sichuan flavors. This is more than just a cookbook, it's an ode to modern Chinese food, breaking away from the confines of tradition.”—Betty Liu, author of My Shanghai

“Jing is not just a brilliant business person but a brilliant chef too. [Sichuan Chili Crisp] is an absolute stunner.”—Noah Galuten, chef, restaurateur, and author of The Panic Pantry

“If you like spicy food, you will love this book. It is full of enticing, addicting, and wonderfully aromatic spicy recipes that will knock you off your wok!”—Ken Hom CBE, chef, author, TV presenter

“Jing’s The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp is a flavor-force to be reckoned with. Only good things have come from me while using her Fly By Jing products and I know that ALL good things will come from this delicious book.”—Tue Nguyen, chef and content creator

“Whether you’re a novice cook experimenting with Sichuan food for the first time or a heat-seeking expert, there’s something for everyone to devour in this expansive book—including a beautiful narrative throughline of discovering the spice in your life that makes you feel alive.”—Alyse Whitney, food editor, and TV host

“Jing introduced me to the world of her native Sichuan cuisine in Chengdu and I fell in love with her and her amazing Fly By Jing Chili Crisp! It’s a flavor bomb sensation and delicious on everything! A must have in one’s Asian pantry.”—Ching-He Huang M. B. E., chef, author, and TV presenter

“Jing and her approach to food is a balance of fire and mindfulness. Every time we cook together, my mind is blown with a new frontier of flavor.”—Camilla Marcus, chef and founder of Westbourne

“The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp will not only make you book a flight to Jing’s motherland of Chengdu, but it will inspire you . . . I can’t wait to create magic alongside Jing.”—Bricia Lopez, chef and author of OAXACA and ASADA

“This book is a magical work of art that spans beyond food and dips into culture, flavor, history, and energy in a way that is so special and unique.”—Ellen Marie Bennett, founder of Hedley & Bennett and author of Dream First, Details Later

“Thanks to her world-famous chili crisp we all know Jing will make your taste buds sing. She also makes those dollas holla and is as serious about business and proving that women of color can shake the room and the world. The future is spicy!”—Jon Gray, Founder of Ghetto Gastro

“The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp is equal parts personal, thoughtful, informative and intoxicatingly delicious. There’s not a single recipe in the book that I’m not quite literally rushing to the grocery store to make. First up: Biang Biang Noodles!”—Molly Baz, New York Times bestselling cookbook author

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Jing Gao is a chef, entrepreneur, and renowned expert on Chinese cuisine, and she’s on a mission to bring uncensored Chinese flavors to the global table. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, but grew up everywhere, and uses her experience as a chef to share meaningful flavors that open people up to new ideas and conversations. She founded Baoism, an award-winning modern-Chinese fast casual restaurant in Shanghai, before founding her successful premium Chinese food company Fly By Jing. Her culinary innovations have been featured in leading magazines and food sections, her personal story as a cultural ambassador and entrepreneur has been seen on the BBC and CNN, and she has been featured in the pages of Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and more. Fly By Jing began as a direct-to-consumer ecommerce brand and can now be found at more than 3000 stores across the country including Target, Whole Foods Market, and Costco.

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I was a little girl, growing up in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan region. My parents and I would eat at fly restaurants—tiny, dingy, hole-in-the-wall places that are so good they’re said to attract people like flies. At these popular spots, we’d grab bowls of Sichuan’s best street food and homestyle cooking. The options were limitless: mung bean noodles, slippery wontons, and stewed pork belly topped with brown sugar. These places were nothing to look at, but the energy was unlike any. It was magical. And the flavors? Delicious, layered, and complex.

I didn’t know it then, but those moments sitting crouched on a tiny plastic stool, eating bowls of hot noodles submerged in sweet chili oil were the most transformative of my life.

When I grew up and moved away from Chengdu, the food and memories from those fly restaurants stayed with me. My family relocated a lot—we lived in Germany, England, Austria, France, and Italy. My father was a nuclear physics professor with a Chinese visa, which meant he usually couldn’t teach at one university for more than a year. Throughout grade school, I was always the new kid. I learned to adapt to my environment at a young age and adopted a Western name—Jenny—to try to appear less foreign, to blend in. Transience became the norm, and each year I had to learn a new culture and a new language—until finally, we settled in Canada for my high school years.

During all these moves, food brought me home. My mom would do her best to recreate memories of our favorite flavors, using ingredients she would find at the local European farmers’ markets. They tasted of neither here nor there but were delicious nonetheless. We would occasionally go back to visit our family in Chengdu and return to the fly restaurants. There was something about the buzz of warmth from the sweet chili oil that reminded me of who I was.

I graduated from business school in Canada and went off into the corporate world. Around 2010, a job with a large tech company brought me back to Asia, where I lived in Beijing, Singapore, and Shanghai. It was exciting and intense, but I started to become undone. Who was I? Where was I from? What is my base? You could say I was having an identity crisis of sorts. The transience had caught up with me, and I had no firm ground to stand on.

Being in China forced me to realize how divorced I’d become from my roots all those years and how much I had pushed down and buried them, just to be seen, just to survive. I slowly peeled back the layers, and food gave me the courage to do so. In Beijing, I dug into the rich food culture of the capital, eating at the restaurants of provincial government offices known for most faithfully representing each region’s cuisine. I studied with chefs and food historians and inquired about dishes. And to dive even deeper, I cooked.

It shocked me how wide and rich this 5,000-year-old culinary heritage actually was and how little of it was and is known outside the country. I saw how people came alive over food and witnessed the vibrant complexity of flavors from across the land. A perfect bowl of mapo tofu evoked tears. Chengdu’s Zhong dumplings elicited smiles as wide as the entire country. A deceptively simple plate of pickles tasted anything but. There was life found in these layers of flavors, and more importantly, I uncovered layers of myself in between these bites.

I began to develop my own personal iterations of these complex Chinese flavors. I went on sourcing trips across the Sichuan countryside, learning the specificity of provenance and its impact on flavor and quality. Sichuan is known as the land of plenty, and for good reason. The climate and topography provide conditions for ingredients unmatched, creating flavors unparalleled. I created dishes that married flavors new and old. Everything was an evolution while being rooted in tradition—and I was finding my voice.

I started a popular blog on Chinese food and took celebrity chefs around the country to eat. Eventually, I found the courage to leave my day job and founded an awardwinning fast-casual restaurant in Shanghai called Baoism. Whenever I could, I began hosting “underground” pop-up dinners around the world. I named these dinners, which I held everywhere from Hong Kong to Sydney to New York, Fly By Jing, a name pulled from my roots: an ode to the fly restaurants.

I loved how the layers of flavors in my dishes made me feel and how they made others light up. I often traveled to cook in places where people had never heard of these ingredients or tasted these flavors. Their reactions convinced me that appreciation for great flavor was universal, and there was a gap to be filled.

Everywhere I traveled, I kept with me a suitcase of meticulously sourced ingredients. I knew they were key to the flavors I cooked and could not be found anywhere else. I made big batches of sauces, spice mixes, and condiments of all kinds. Chili crisp, the versatile, spicy, umami-rich sauce was a base layer for many recipes as something to build up flavor, and it was something I took for granted. It was a pantry staple in Sichuan, and there were thousands of variations across China, much like soy sauce and sesame oil. Recipes for chili crisp varied from family to family, passed down over generations. I began to concoct a personal blend, honoring my family’s rendition while adding my own nuances. Guests at my dinners inquired about it, and I started bottling the stuff to give to friends and family. Demand grew, and I began selling it online and in local boutiques.

In 2018, I traveled to California to visit a natural food trade show called Expo West. Swimming through a sea of people over several days at the largest food exhibition in the country, I was struck by the lack of diversity in options. I could count on one hand the number of Asian food brands represented, and that didn’t seem right, given how popular I knew these flavors were. I realized quickly that this was my opportunity. I launched Fly By Jing, my line of pantry staples featuring Sichuan chili crisp at its front and center, shortly thereafter via a crowdfunding campaign, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Today, everything I do revolves around flavor. It colors how I see the world and evokes memories and dreams of the future. The base of this flavor was and remains chili crisp. It punctuates my brand and all that I do. But chili crisp is also an invitation to feel and remember and be seen. The journey of building my company has helped me come home to myself. Along the way, I reclaimed my birth name, 婧 Jing.

This book is about this reclaiming. It tells the story of how I found—and continue to find—my identity through food. I am here because I have the utmost honor of being able to cook and explore the food of my home country. Sichuan chili crisp is the vessel through which I’ve been able to express my love for my culture. Fly By Jing’s slogan “Not Traditional But Personal” speaks to the deeply meaningful pillars of heritage and the steadfast honoring of self, both of which is what I founded my brand on.

These pages also tell of the nuanced, layered, complicated, historical, and modern aspects of Chinese cuisines and the unparalleled magic of chili crisp. I say “magic” because it truly is just that. It can take any dish to the next level—from a traditional bowl of dan dan noodles (page 171) to your mother’s favorite lemon cake. Chili crisp is meant to make you get in the kitchen and explore and experiment unfettered. It’s meant to bring you closer to you.

My goal has always been to evolve culture through flavor. I want you to feel seen and heard when you cook and eat, just as I have done. Get curious. Get weird. Get bold.

Throughout all these years, the one truth I’ve learned and kept close is that flavor is a vehicle to tell our stories. When we’re exposed to new sensations on our taste buds, we break barriers in ourselves and with others. That really is magic.

And so is sweet, fiery chili crisp dripping down your lips.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (September 26, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984862170
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984862174
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 1.04 x 9.31 inches

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Jing Gao is the founder and CEO of Fly By Jing, the first premium Chinese food company that brings thoughtfully-crafted pantry staples to the modern kitchen. She is a chef, entrepreneur and a renowned expert on Chinese cuisine on a mission to bring uncensored Chinese flavors to the table. She was born in Chengdu, but grew up everywhere, and uses her experience as a chef to share meaningful flavors that open people up to new ideas and conversations. She was the founder of an award-winning modern-Chinese fast casual restaurant in Shanghai and her work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Fortune, and more.

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Customers praise the cookbook's variety of authentic flavors and easy-to-follow recipes. Moreover, the artwork and photography receive high marks, with one customer noting the whole section dedicated to vegetarian dishes. Additionally, the book is rich in history and stories, and customers appreciate its educational value, with one review highlighting how it provides important context about the recipes.

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Customers enjoy the book's variety of authentic flavors and delicious recipes, with one customer noting it includes a whole section dedicated to vegetarian dishes.

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"Great book. Variety of mostly authentic flavors, if not recipes. I am not Chinese but lived in China. My husband loves Sichuan and Hunan...." Read more

"...is so inspiring and the recipes are actually super easy to make and delicious! i only want to eat the mapo tofu and dandan noodles every night...." Read more

"...This book will live on my counter. If you love food, culinary history and want to bring next-level flavor into your life, get started on..." Read more

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Customers praise the cookbook's incredible artwork and photography, with beautiful dishes and vibrant presentation.

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"...The recipes are easy to follow and the author’s narratives interesting. It was a great companion to my other gift of a jar of Chile Crisp...." Read more

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This book is visually stunning, and a great story about the authors journey in life and food. It educates the reader on how nearly every dish can be elevated with Sichuan’s favors. I strong suggest purchasing all FLY BY JING’s sauces as it is the quick way to recreate these recipes and make that perfect pairing. From appetizers to entrees and even drinks, this book doesn’t disappoint. Some of my favorite recipe are Hongshao Carnitas Tacos, Ants Climbing Up A Tree, and Spicy Three Cup Chicken. But there is so much more I want to try. Pick up a copy, and you will be a lover of Jing and FLY BY JING for life.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023
This book is visually stunning, and a great story about the authors journey in life and food. It educates the reader on how nearly every dish can be elevated with Sichuan’s favors. I strong suggest purchasing all FLY BY JING’s sauces as it is the quick way to recreate these recipes and make that perfect pairing. From appetizers to entrees and even drinks, this book doesn’t disappoint. Some of my favorite recipe are Hongshao Carnitas Tacos, Ants Climbing Up A Tree, and Spicy Three Cup Chicken. But there is so much more I want to try. Pick up a copy, and you will be a lover of Jing and FLY BY JING for life.

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You can just tell that there is SO much care in this cookbook the photos are absolutely stunning and nothing like ive ever seen in a cookbook. Looks more like a coffee table/art book - I want to get two copies!! One for the kitchen that will be marked with evidence of how much I’ll be using it, and one for the library in pristine condition that I will look at with only clean hands when I’m not cooking :)

I’ve been following her and her brand for a while now and can’t believe she’s found another way to share her story with the world and in such a different way. Not only is it a cookbook with a bunch of recipes for things I’ve never had (love that it’s not just Chinese dishes, every recipe is mixed with so many other influences) …it’s also a very sweet story about her personal journey and celebrating who she is. Super inspired AND! it makes me want to visit Chengdu :) Hope she makes another book soon

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Great book. Variety of mostly authentic flavors, if not recipes. I am not Chinese but lived in China. My husband loves Sichuan and Hunan. Strength of the book is variety - I augment some of the recipes with concepts from other books. I frequently grab this one when looking for directional inspiration, ideas to complete a menu, or something beyond my husband's traditional favorites. Not strong on specific techniques. Worthy addition to my collection.

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Full of robust, flavorful recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2023
Although I like a good cooking project, I've had less time lately. It's hard to find cookbooks that hit the sweet spot of containing weeknight-effort meals while still producing tasty results and being a satisfying challenge. The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp arrived in my inbox at the perfect time. It manages to hit all three criteria very nicely.

Before the book's arrival, I'd recently become a convert to Fly by Jing's Chili Crisp. Everything from eggs to tomatoes and turkey burgers seemed to be improved by its complex smokiness. I'd been on the lookout for even more ways to use it, since it seemed so versatile.

Jing Gao's cookbook is so much more than a handbook to Chili Crisp, though. Indeed, many recipes include the condiment if not feature it, but not all do. Sometimes, its effect is subtle, other times, it is more pronounced. In every case, full-bodied, bold flavors are highlighted.

Everything I've made out of this book as been tasty. I liked the Kung Pao Shrimp enough to adapt it a second time, the next day, using chicken. The Three Cup Chicken was another dish that I will fold into my repertoire. The Chili Crisp Vinaigrette Cabbage was one of the side dishes I attempted before this review. It was indeed very tasty and exceedingly easy, but similarly smoky and salty as the mains.

That brings me to my one critique: it'd be that I'd like to see some fresher, lighter fare to serve alongside these robust dishes. Making a well-rounded mult-course meal from this book can be a little difficult without supplementing the lineup with some simple side dishes from other sources. However, not every cookbook has to be a self-contained world. If you have a enough of a library to pair this book with others, you will be pleased with the recipes contained here.

Ten Speed Press provided me with a free copy of this book; the opinions are my own.

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truly delicious and easy to make!
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This is an incredible, important and (essentially) delicious cookbook. Jing's story is so inspiring and the recipes are actually super easy to make and delicious! i only want to eat the mapo tofu and dandan noodles every night. there are lots of Gluten Free and vegan options too! an essential for anyone that loves to cook! (or even just be inspired by food. the food photography is next level!)

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truly delicious and easy to make!

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023
This is an incredible, important and (essentially) delicious cookbook. Jing's story is so inspiring and the recipes are actually super easy to make and delicious! i only want to eat the mapo tofu and dandan noodles every night. there are lots of Gluten Free and vegan options too! an essential for anyone that loves to cook! (or even just be inspired by food. the food photography is next level!)

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A Must Have for Every Foodie and Home Chef
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Jing Gao's Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp is more than a cookbook, it's a work of art. This book contains so many delicious recipes, but it's also full of history and stories which provide important context about the recipies, Sichuan food and Jing's culinary journey. The photography is stunning, unique and next level. What a beautiful, amazing perspective on food. This book will live on my counter.

If you love food, culinary history and want to bring next-level flavor into your life, get started on your Sichuan journey by immediately ordering this book.

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A beautiful book with Easy to Follow Recipes
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I bought this book as a gift but enjoyed reading it and trying some of the recipes before giving it. The recipes are easy to follow and the author’s narratives interesting. It was a great companion to my other gift of a jar of Chile Crisp. The biscuit recipe was excellent and I’ll use it with and without the Chile crisp!

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I'm an old school cookbook guy. Yes, I can get it free off the internet, but I love hard cover books. This one doesn't disappoint on any level. Great photos and stories.

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truly delicious and easy to make!

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