The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones

I prefer the Australian book cover art (not the one shown here) -it evokes the delicacy and poetry of the food and love written about so beautifully in the book. The book is a captivating journey into food - the layers of meaning, history and literary allusions there are in the Chinese-Chinese food that the protaganist an American food writer begins to fall in love with, so different to the American-Chinese food she has known, and the life she has known.