Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

King, Michelle T.

ISBN 10: 1324021284 / ISBN 13: 9781324021285

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024

Item is in like new condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00097507519

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In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother’s copies of Fu Pei-mei’s Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the recipes to meals of her childhood. She found, in Fu’s story and in her food, a vivid portal to another time, when a generation of middle-class, female home cooks navigated the tremendous postwar transformations taking place across the world.Chop Fry Watch LearnAnd Fu’s legacy continues. Her cookbooks have become beloved emblems of cultural memory, passed from parent to child, wherever diasporic Chinese have landed. Informed by the voices of fans across generations, King illuminates the story of Chinese food from the inside: at home, around the family dinner table. The result is a revelatory work, a rich banquet of past and present tastes that will resonate deeply for all of us looking for our histories in the kitchen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Michelle T. King is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specializes in modern Chinese gender and food history. A 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, she lives in Chapel Hill.

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Titel: Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Like New