Kung Pao & Beyond by Susan Jung

Editor Keith Kendrick indulges his love of fried chicken with this celebration of the whole bird

- Keith Kendrick

“Is there any omnivore out there who doesn’t like fried chicken?” is one of the greatest opening sentences to a cookbook I’ve ever read. It’s posed by Susan Jung – former food & drink editor for the South China Morning Post – at the start of her wonderful homage to every cut of the bird. I thought I’d tried every possible variation of fried chicken, from Korean to Japanese karaage. Good Food columnist Melissa Thompson has even filmed a series about it – The Stories Behind Fried Chicken. But, Kung Pao & Beyond takes it above and, well, beyond.