Serve the People
Subtitle: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: July 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780151012916
Subjects: General; Regional & Ethnic - Chinese; Cooking / Chinese; Chinese Cookery; Description And Travel; Cooking; Cooking / Wine
Description: Jen Lin-Liu takes us on a tour of today's China as she progresses from cooking student to noodle-stall and dumpling-house apprentice to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant. Along the way she meets poor young men and women streaming in from the provinces in search of a "rice bowl" (living wage) and a burgeoning urban middle class hungry for luxury after decades of turmoil and privation. Together they present a slice of contemporary China in the full swing of social and economic transformation.