The last Chinese chef / Nicole Mones.
For food writer Maggie McElroy, it's been a year of trying to get her equilibrium back in the wake of her husband's premature death. Now comes a shock: a paternity claim has been filed against her husband's estate. Could he, while working in his firm's Beijing office, have fathered a child? As Maggie plans a difficult trip to China to investigate the claim, she is offered a chance to profile chef and rising star Sam Liang. What begins as a hoped-for distraction while in Beijing, however, turns into a life-changing event. As Maggie watches three generations of Liangs prepare sumptuous feasts together, she is moved by the Chinese belief that food must always be eaten in a circle of family and friends. As she reads Sam's grandfather's account of life as a cook in the Emperor's kitchen, Maggie discovers the centrality of food in Chinese history. And as Sam cooks a chicken as soft as velvet...spiced along centuries'- old notions of what heals the heart.
Record details
- ISBN: 0618619666
- ISBN: 9780618619665
- ISBN: 0547053738
- Physical Description: 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
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