At the Chinese Table
A Memoir with Recipes
Seiten
2021
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-00245-1 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-00245-1 (ISBN)
Part memoir of life in Taiwan, part love story— a beautifully told account of China’s brilliant cuisines... with recipes.
“Lucky for me, Taipei was in the midst of transforming itself into a food lover’s paradise at the exact time I appeared on the scene.” So begins Carolyn Phillips’s journey as a language student in 1970s Taiwan that culminated with her becoming a traditional Chinese family’s eldest daughter-in-law.
Through beguiling stories that stretch across four decades, she recalls how she fell in love with a man who seduced her with everything from simple homely meals to haute cuisine, from crabs stir-fried with clouds of scrambled eggs to lush braises that enticed and bewildered. As their relationship deepened and her language skills grew, she evolved into a cook who wrestled a pig’s head into dinner, learned Hakka dishes from her reticent father-in-law and wrote an award-winning cookbook. At the Chinese Table is a culinary adventure studded with stunning line drawings and twenty-two recipes that celebrate a lifetime filled with extraordinary meals.
“Lucky for me, Taipei was in the midst of transforming itself into a food lover’s paradise at the exact time I appeared on the scene.” So begins Carolyn Phillips’s journey as a language student in 1970s Taiwan that culminated with her becoming a traditional Chinese family’s eldest daughter-in-law.
Through beguiling stories that stretch across four decades, she recalls how she fell in love with a man who seduced her with everything from simple homely meals to haute cuisine, from crabs stir-fried with clouds of scrambled eggs to lush braises that enticed and bewildered. As their relationship deepened and her language skills grew, she evolved into a cook who wrestled a pig’s head into dinner, learned Hakka dishes from her reticent father-in-law and wrote an award-winning cookbook. At the Chinese Table is a culinary adventure studded with stunning line drawings and twenty-two recipes that celebrate a lifetime filled with extraordinary meals.
Carolyn Phillips is a food writer, scholar, artist, fluent Mandarin speaker, and author of the James Beard–nominated All Under Heaven, the first English-language cookbook to examine all thirty-five cuisines of China. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Line drawings throughout |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 552 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
| Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-324-00245-X / 132400245X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-324-00245-1 / 9781324002451 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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