Chinese Food Novel Feeds Hearts, Stomachs

Listen here!

Excerpt and Recipe: ‘The Last Chinese Chef’

NPR just ran a story on KQED.org.
No, I don’t live in San Francisco anymore but I sure do miss my old public radio station.
At any rate, I’ve often wondered about the importance of food to the Chinese people.
Growing up, it didn’t matter the occasion, my folks always had an excuse to ‘eat’.
It wasn’t about the food and it wasn’t about where we ate.
It was about the people that we cared about and the honor to shared this moment with them.
It was more of a celebration of our lives, love, children, parents, siblings, good friends and sometimes old college friends and neighbors.

I can’t wait to get my paws on her book.

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Can Chinese food heal a broken heart?

In her new novel, The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones weaves her experience writing about Chinese food for Gourmet magazine into a story about a woman trying to find solace from her husband’s untimely death.

Using Chinese culinary history, language and tantalizing descriptions of fine cuisine, Mones shows how food can both nourish the body and the soul.
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