My cookbook Dumplings Equal Love launched in fall of 2020 and it’s available wherever you love to buy books! It’s my first solo cookbook and I’m really proud of it and always love to hear what folks love cooking from it. If you’d like to purchase a signed copy or copies at list price I’m happy to ship via USPS media mail or USPS Priority Mail for the contiguous U.S. Simply email me at liz crain dot com with your order.
You can read about me and Dumplings Equal Love in…
Food & Wine Magazine
Oregon Home Magazine
The Powell’s Books blog
The Oregonian
Portland Monthly
Learn how to make the book’s Pork & Shrimp Shumai on…
KATU AM Northwest
Hang out with me and Helen Raptis while we make the book’s Shrimp XLB on…
KATU AM Northwest
Learn how to have a home noodle bar with all sorts of yummy sauces on…
KATU Afternoon Live
Learn how to make Shrimp & Grits Dumplings with me and Kara Mack on…
KATU Afternoon Live
Cook up some easy weeknight dumpling soup with me and Kara Mack on…
KATU Afternoon Live
Make a Bananas Foster dumpling desert sundae with me and Kara Mack on…
KATU Afternoon Live
Learn to make Cincinnati chili + Cincy chili dumplings with me and Kara on…
KATU Afternoon Live
Watch this Powell’s Emily Brodowicz segment on the top 5 books for 2021 on…
KGW News
Listen to me and Ken Jones talk about the book and Portland Book Festival on…
KBOO Mr. Jones’s Neighborhood
Watch me + Megha Majumdar + Amanda Bullock talk food + storytelling at…
Portland Book Festival
Watch the YouTube video of the Powell’s Books Dumplings Equal Love virtual book launch on Oct. 13th with Marisa McClellan. So sweet and fun!
Powell’s Book Virtual Book Launch
Watch or listen to me on the comedy + advice podcast This Might Help…
This Might Help podcast with Matt Braunger
Check out my Largehearted Boy Book Notes + playlist for the book…
Largehearted Boy + Dumplings Equal Love
Please consider ordering it from wherever you love buying books such as Powell's Books, Broadway Books, Bookshop.org, Amazon.com, or click here for more retail options. Also, if you purchase the book and enjoy it, online reviews on retail sites, Goodreads etc., and social media posts are hugely helpful. Please consider tagging me with the hashtag #dumplingsequallove. Thank you!
The Dumplings = Love light pictured here lives on my kitchen bookshelf and Bea, my boyfriend Jimbo’s mom, gave it to me. The beautiful, colorful Dumplings = Love art on my wall was made for me by Larry Yes. I LOVE IT!
To follow my dumpling making adventures past, present and future, check out #dumplingsequallove on social media.
SOME ADDITIONAL MATERIAL & DUMPLING FUN FOR YOU!
Art Skins Gallery // Dough Scrap Noodles // Dough Scrap Crackers // Marbled Skins // Dotted, Striped & Spiraled Skins //
Drawing & Writing on Skins
My YouTube video on how to form dumplings.
My YouTube video on dumpling making tools and equipment.
My YouTube 5-part DIY video series on the book’s Napa Kimchi.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DUMPLINGS EQUAL LOVE
"Do dumplings equal love? Well, ask anyone you give a plateful of the pork-and-homemade-kimchee mandu or gingery pork-and-cabbage gyoza from this cookbook, and you’ll probably get the answer, 'Are you kidding? Of course!' Food writer (and dumpling fanatic) Liz Crain guides readers through the key steps of making great dumplings—what tools and ingredients they’ll need, how to form different shapes, the nature of different dumpling doughs—before diving into a plethora of recipes (for both dumpling and dipping sauces) derived from cultures around the world. Classics like pork & shrimp shumai are present; so are pillowy Italian-inspired goat cheese dumplings in arrabbiata sauce, and shrimp & grits dumplings spiced up with homemade sambal."
—Food & Wine
"Most people know me for barbecue, but I have an abiding love—make that obsession—for dumplings. Liz Crain walks you step-by-step through their preparation, bringing uncommon passion and creativity to her recipes in what may be the most charming book on dumplings ever written. I only wish she did takeout!" —Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible cookbook series and host of Project Fire and Project Smoke on PBS
"Crain’s perfectly-timed new cookbook shows how making dumplings can bring almost as much comfort as eating them."
—The Oregonian
"I love dumplings, and Liz Crain makes them easy, accessible, and fun!"
—Sandor Ellix Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, The Art of Fermentation, and Fermentation as Metaphor
“If we are being perfectly honest here, dough scares me. Reading Dumplings Equal Love left me inspired and confident to mix, roll, and stuff some dough. Liz Crain’s easy style and gentle instruction had me convinced I could do this. Dumplings Equal Love is a recipe rich global journey with encouragement and permission to create your own rainbow of dumplings. So I did, deliciously and successfully.” —Kirsten K. Shockey, author of four fermentation books including bestselling Fermented Vegetables and award-winning Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments
"WE LOVE THIS BOOK! It is perfect for the serious cook (like Ann) and for the nowhere cook (like Stephen). It is a simple guide to huge flavors and what feels like endless variety. The book lays out the path through the forest to a world of eating we never would have tried on our own. Thank you. Thank you. Fun. Easy. Delicious." —Ann Tobolowsky, actor and director; Stephen Tobolowsky, actor, writer and cocreator of The Tobolowsky Files podcast
"Liz Crain is one of my favorite food writers, and her first solo cookbook, Dumplings Equal Love, is informative, fun, and filled with easy-to-follow and delicious dumpling recipes from around the world."
—David Gutowski, creator of the blog Largehearted Boy
Some of the many bright and beautiful photos in the book thanks to photographer Dina Avila and food stylist Nathan Carrabba!
