Chop, fry, watch, learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the making of modern Chinese food

Map of Fu Pei-mei's four major Chinese culinary regions

Introduction: In the freezer, ready to eat

Exile and arrival

Making a home

Kitchen conversation: The housewife. Squirreled fish on the small screen

For the sake of foreign reader's

Must a housewife forget herself?

Kitchen conversation: The working mom. Culinary ambassador to the world

Dinner in seventeen minutes

What she put on the table

Kitchen conversation: The novice. A cookbook in every suitcase

Dishes for a digital age

Epilogue: Dumplings for all

Acknowledgments

Notes

Suggested readings

Illustration credits

Index.