Carolyn Phillips

At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the 2022 IACP Award in Literary or Historical Food Writing
KCRW Best Culinary books of 2021
WBUR Here & Now Favorite Cookbooks of 2021

Part memoir of life in Taiwan, part love storya beautifully told account of China's brilliant cuisines...with recipes.

At the Chinese Table describes in vivid detail how, during the 1970s and '80s, celebrated cookbook writer and illustrator Carolyn Phillips crosses China's endless cultural and linguistic chasms and falls in love. During her second year in Taipei, she meets scholar and epicurean J. H. Huang, who nourishes her intellectually over luscious meals from every part of China. And then, before she knows it, Carolyn finds herself the unwelcome candidate for eldest daughter-in-law in a traditional Chinese family.

This warm, refreshingly candid memoir is a coming-of-age story set against a background of the Chinese diaspora and a family whose ancestry is intricately intertwined with that of their native land. Carolyn's reticent father-in-lawa World War II fighter pilot and heroeventually embraces her presence by showing her how to re-create centuries-old Hakka dishes from family recipes. In the meantime, she brushes up on the classic cuisines of the North in an attempt to win over J. H.'s imperious mother, whose father had been a warlord's lieutenant. Fortunately for J. H. and Carolyn, the tense early days of their relationship blossom into another kind of cultural and historical education as Carolyn masters both the language and many of China's extraordinary cuisines.

With illustrations and twenty-two recipes, At the Chinese Table is a culinary adventure like no other that captures the diversity of China's cuisines, from the pen of a world-class scholar and gourmet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324002468
• Artikelnr.: 60396895

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Phillips is a food writer, scholar, artist, fluent Mandarin speaker, and author of the James Beardnominated All Under Heaven, the first English-language cookbook to examine all thirty-five cuisines of China. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.