Chop Fry Watch Learn
fu pei-mei and the making of modern chinese food
$30.39
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2025
Summary
Chop Fry Watch Learn: A Culinary Journey Through Taiwan’s Kitchens and Beyond
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324110484 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324110481 |
| Author: | Michelle T. King |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 257g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“King is acute and sensitive in presenting the paradoxes of Fu’s identity….She has produced that rare biography in which a protagonist comes to complex, contradiction-ridden life with no sacrifice of painstaking factual accuracy.” – Anne Mendelson - The Wall Street Journal“Fascinating…. As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than ‘the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.‘” – Thessaly La Force - The New York Times Book Review“King presents not just a biography of an indomitable woman, but a portrait of how cultures eat.” – The New York Times
About The Author
Michelle T. King
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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