How to Cook and Eat in Chinese vs Oysters à la mode, or, The oyster and over 100 ways of cooking it: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Cookery, Cooking

Cover of How to Cook and Eat in Chinese

How to Cook and Eat in Chinese Buwei Yang Chao · 1945 ★★★★☆ 4.1 262 pages · ≈ 4 h 51 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of Oysters à la mode, or, The oyster and over 100 ways of cooking it

Oysters à la mode, or, The oyster and over 100 ways of cooking it Harriet Anne de Salis · 1888 76 pages · ≈ 1 h 24 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

The verdict

Oysters à la mode, or, The oyster and over 100 ways of cooking it is the quicker read — about 1 hours vs 4 for How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

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