An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included)

An A-Z of Chinese Food is a landmark in British food writing, somewhere between a book, a magazine, and a treatise, but completely its own thing. Jenny has the rare ability to dissect unwieldy matters of identity, race and culture with the lightness of touch that all serious topics need, combatting preconceived notions about Chinese cuisine with immaculate research and subversive humour. This book is a tonic to the mainstream of food writing * Jonathan Nunn *A leading light in the British Chinese community * Fuchsia Dunlop *

Jenny Lau is the author of An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included), an exploration of food, language, identity, and the Chinese diaspora, featured in Observer Food Monthly, The Sunday Times, AnOther, and iPaper.

She is the founder of Celestial Peach, a multidisciplinary platform established in 2018 to tell and connect stories of the Chinese diaspora through food, writing, and community-led work. Through her events, writing, and activism, Jenny has been featured by Gastro Obscura, It’s Nice That, and Monocle. She has been listed three times as one of Code Hospitality’s 100 Most Influential Women in Hospitality.

Her food and culture writing has been published by Vittles and the South China Morning Post. Her chapter ‘The Community Centre’ appears in London Feeds Itself, the food writing anthology edited by Jonathan Nunn, alongside contributors including Claudia Roden, Ruby Tandoh, and Jeremy Corbyn.

Jenny has spoken at the British Library Food Season and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, lectured at SOAS, and taken part in panels and collaborations with the BFI, Southbank Centre, MilkTeaFilms, and the Horniman Museum. She lives in London.