A soup for the Qan : : Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Sihui's Yinshan zhengyao : introduction, translation, commentary, and Chinese text / / by Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson ; with an appendix by Charles Perry.

• Superior document: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, v. 9
• Author: Husihui.
• TeilnehmendeR: Buell, Paul D.; Anderson, Eugene Newton, Jr., 1941-; Perry, Charles, 1941-
• Any de publicació: 2010
• Edició: 2nd rev. and expanded ed.
• Idioma: English
• Col·lecció: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 9.
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (680 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his Yinshan Zhengyao , a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore includin...