Sitting the Month

A nourishing and restorative guide to eating well after childbirth, with recipes informed by traditional Chinese medicine. 

In Taiwan and across the Chinese-speaking world, the transition period into motherhood is treated with such reverence that it has its own name: zuò yuè zi - to sit the month. Informed by her own experience "sitting the month" at a postpartum hotel and written in collaboration with herbalist Stella Wang, Clarissa Wei adapts 88 recipes for home cooks, including Sesame Oil Chicken Soup and Ten Tonic Supreme Soup, the mother of all postpartum recovery broths. This cookbook returns care and love to the early stages of motherhood.