Contents

Map of Fu Pei-mei’s Four Major Chinese Culinary Regions

Introduction: In the Freezer, Ready to Eat

1.Exile and Arrival

2.Making a Home

Kitchen Conversation: The Housewife

3.Squirreled Fish on the Small Screen

4.For the Sake of Foreign Readers

5.Must a Housewife Forget Herself?

Kitchen Conversation: The Working Mom

6.Culinary Ambassador to the World

7.Dinner in Seventeen Minutes

8.What She Put on the Table

Kitchen Conversation: The Novice

9.A Cookbook in Every Suitcase

10.Dishes for a Digital Age

Epilogue: Dumplings for All

Acknowledgments

Notes

Suggested Readings

Illustration Credits

Index