num_pages: 48
description: In this picture book biography, get to know Chef Joyce Chen who is famous for popularizing Chinese food in the northeastern United States.How far can an apron, a bowl, or a book take one small Chinese girl with a passion to cook?From peach blossom Beijing, to crisp Cambridge snow, how far will her dumpling dreams help Joyce Chen go? Carrie Clickard tells the story of how Joyce Chen, a girl born in Communist China, immigrated to the United States and popularized Chinese cooking.
language: English
title: Dumpling Dreams: How Joyce Chen Brought the Dumpling from Beijing to Cambridge
publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books