When Chopsticks Meet Apple Pie: Cross-Cultural Musings on Life, Family, and Food

By Annabel Annuo Liu

Loves to eat but hates to cook. Annabel Liu has livedwith this conundrum all her immigrant life, andher intentions in the kitchen have always beendishonorable-to cheat, skimp, and get away with aslittle work as possible. Before leaving Taiwan for theU.S. at the age of twenty-two, she had never set foot inthe kitchen, and she spent the next sixty years trying tominimize her time and effort there while feeding herselfand her family.In this witty and contemplative collection of personalessays, Liu takes us on a journey into her mind andacross the globe with her unique insight into food,family, travel, and life as an outsider. She delves intowhy the Chinese are the most food-obsessed people inthe world; her thirty-year pursuit of a decent Chinesemeal in the sticks of America; the issues of foodand drink between vastly disparate cultures; and thestruggles of bridging generational and cultural gapswithin the family.A journalist by training, Annabel Liu has publishedten books in English and Chinese, including My Yearsas Chang Tsen: Two Wars, One Childhood and Under theTowering Tree: A Daughter's Memoir. When ChopsticksMeet Apple Pie: Cross-Cultural Musings on Life, Family,and Food completes her trilogy on one immigrant's life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539549402
• ISBN13: 9781539549406
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"