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Dumpling Therapy: My Mother, Chinese Food, and Five Thousand Years of Not-So-Ancient Recipes

Dumpling Therapy: My Mother, Chinese Food, and Five Thousand Years of Not-So-Ancient Recipes

Brown, Miranda

Hardcover

Culinary BiographiesBiographies GeneralAsian Cooking General

Publisher Price: $30.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 5, 2027

ISBN10: 1250396859
ISBN13: 9781250396853
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

A delicious and moving memoir, tracing a family's journey through Chinese food.

As a teen growing up in San Francisco, Miranda Brown noticed her outspoken immigrant mother didn't act--or cook--like other Chinese mothers. Butter invaded coffee. Stinky fruits found their way into ice cream. Brown dreamed of making dumplings the way normal Chinese moms did.

Years later, after her mother's death, Brown became a mother herself. Determined to master the classic Chinese cooking her mother never taught her, she discovered something unexpected: even the dumpling may have foreign roots. The revelation propelled her deep into the hidden histories of China's most beloved dishes, tracing the lineage of everything from the chewy noodles of Beijing to her favorite braised Cantonese tofu to the chop suey she once scorned as a teenager.

But the search for culinary origins unlocked a more intimate mystery. From the fields of ancient China to the kitchens of 1980s San Francisco, Brown pieces together her family story across two millennia. Through secret letters and centuries-old recipes, she uncovers not just the histories behind beloved dishes, but her mother's own mixed heritage and adventurousness. The woman who once seemed to cook wrong left a richer inheritance than Brown had ever imagined.

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