The first cookbook of Hmong-American cuisine, filled with unique recipes and stories Simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh, Hmong food is an exciting but still little-known South Asian cuisine. In traditional Hmong culture, dishes are created and replicated not by exact measurements but by taste and experimentation-for every Hmong recipe, there are as many variations as there are Hmong cooks-and often served to large, communal groups. Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang have gathered more than 100 recipes from Hmong-American kitchens, illustrated them with color photos of completed dishes, and provided descriptions of unusual ingredients and cooking techniques. Cooking from the Heart is the first cookbook to clearly set out the culinary traditions of the Hmong people as well as the cultural significance such traditions hold. The recipes are accompanied by anecdotes, aphorisms, and poems that demonstrate the importance of food and cooking in Hmong culture and offer a dramatic perspective on the immigrant experience. Scripter and Yang outline diet restrictions and taboos as well as how herbs and foods are traditionally used for healing purposes. The dishes featured in Cooking from the Heart range from well-known items such as egg rolls and green papaya salad to more unfamiliar dishes such as Nqaij Qaib Hau Xyaw Tshuaj (Chicken Soup for New Mothers) and Dib Iab Ntim Nqaij Hau Ua Kua (Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup). The oral tradition by which these recipes have been passed down has meant that Hmong cooking has not yet reached a wide audience in the United States. While designed for an American kitchen, Cooking from the Heart encourages readers to seek out Hmong herbs and vegetables only recently introduced in the United States. After all, the authors say, the essence of Hmong cuisine is cooking with an adventurous and creative spirit-from the heart.

The purpose of this development is to create a 3D volume calculating device for the industrial use to acquire the huge volume of the ultra large-sized scrap or the highly piled-up discarded metal material in the factory. Considering the specific working conditions in this research, the design concept of the system configuration hence focuses on the industrial advantages which include those of a small and portable volume, a detachable mechanical structure, a relatively lower cost and a more apt way of control. By combining the 3D scanning technologies with the following components of the laser distance measurement sensor (LDM301) as well as the accurate real-time positioning pan-tilt unit (PTU-D46-17), coupled with the proper control and the specific volume algorithm from the computer programming language along with the extraction of the color information from the full HD (1080p) camera, the main objective to calculate the volume of a certain target shall therefore be accomplished in this study.