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“Michelle King is a historian of the Republican period, so this book is a real departure. It’s beautifully written. It’s about Fu Pei-mei who is typically described as Taiwan’s Julia Child. But as Michelle King points out, Fu Pei-mei started her TV show before Julia Child, hence you could just as easily say that Julia Child was the American Fu Pei-mei. Fu Pei-mei was very important in introducing Chinese food and cooking to audiences in Taiwan as that country was developing. Her cookbooks sometimes came out bilingually, so they introduced Chinese food to Western cooks as well, and she included European dishes in her shows, so the cosmopolitanism went still further.” Read more...
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