{"product_id":"at-the-chinese-table-hardcover","title":"AT THE CHINESE TABLE (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 IACP Award in Literary or Historical Food Writing\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKCRW\u003c\/i\u003e Best Culinary books of 2021\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWBUR\u003c\/i\u003e Here \u0026amp; Now Favorite Cookbooks of 2021\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part memoir of life in Taiwan, part love story—a beautifully told account of China’s brilliant cuisines…with recipes. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Chinese Table\u003c\/i\u003e describes in vivid detail how, during the 1970s and ’80s, celebrated cookbook writer and illustrator Carolyn Phillips crosses China’s endless cultural and linguistic chasms and falls in love. During her second year in Taipei, she meets scholar and epicurean J. H. Huang, who nourishes her intellectually over luscious meals from every part of China. And then, before she knows it, Carolyn finds herself the unwelcome candidate for eldest daughter-in-law in a traditional Chinese family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis warm, refreshingly candid memoir is a coming-of-age story set against a background of the Chinese diaspora and a family whose ancestry is intricately intertwined with that of their native land. Carolyn’s reticent father-in-law—a World War II fighter pilot and hero—eventually embraces her presence by showing her how to re-create centuries-old Hakka dishes from family recipes. In the meantime, she brushes up on the classic cuisines of the North in an attempt to win over J. H.’s imperious mother, whose father had been a warlord’s lieutenant. Fortunately for J. H. and Carolyn, the tense early days of their relationship blossom into another kind of cultural and historical education as Carolyn masters both the language and many of China’s extraordinary cuisines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith illustrations and twenty-two recipes, \u003ci\u003eAt the Chinese Table\u003c\/i\u003e is a culinary adventure like no other that captures the diversity of China’s cuisines, from the pen of a world-class scholar and gourmet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phillips, Carolyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337212686610,"sku":"9781324002451","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/10708903482659_29c4b351-2a9a-45b7-a35d-f30bf5319199.jpg?v=1780436197","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/at-the-chinese-table-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}