03537cam a2200349 4500 539373647 TxAuBib 20210920120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547347035 0547347030 B004Y18XB4 Amazon 3abec9b1-fbc4-46ee-9398-5a2e1372fd88 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 578777 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mones, Nicole. The Last Chinese Chef [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1586kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:The bestselling author of Lost in Translation "unlocks the deepest mysteries of legendary Chinese culinary arts to produce a feast for the human heart" (David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly). This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the bestselling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Mones's captivating story also brings into focus a changing China—this time the hidden world of high culinary culture. When Maggie McElroy, a widowed American food writer, learns of a Chinese paternity claim against her late husband's estate, she has to go immediately to Beijing. She asks her magazine for time off, but her editor counters with an assignment: to profile the rising culinary star Sam Liang. In China, Maggie unties the knots of her husband's past, finding out more than she expected about him and about herself. With Sam as her guide, she is also drawn deep into a world of food rooted in centuries of history and philosophy. To her surprise she begins to be transformed by the cuisine, by Sam's family—a querulous but loving pack of cooks and diners—and most of all by Sam himself. The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of a woman regaining her soul in the most unexpected of places and "a stunning picture of a country caught between tradition and modern life" (Entertainment Weekly). World Gourmand Award Winner "I don't think there's ever been anything quite like this. It's a love story, it's a mystery, and it's also the most thorough explanation of Chinese food that I've ever read in the English language."—Ruth Reichl. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/3AB/EC9/B1/LastChineseChef9780547347035.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3ABEC9B1-FBC4-46EE-9398-5A2E1372FD88&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/3AB/EC9/B1/LastChineseChef9780547347035.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3ABEC9B1-FBC4-46EE-9398-5A2E1372FD88&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/3AB/EC9/B1/LastChineseChef9780547347035.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3ABEC9B1-FBC4-46EE-9398-5A2E1372FD88&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)