Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book

Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book
Traditional Chinese培梅食譜
Simplified Chinese培梅食谱
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPéiméi Shípǔ
Wade–GilesP'ei2-mei2 Shih2-p'u3

Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book (Chinese: 培梅食譜) is a cookbook series by Fu Pei-mei, written in both Chinese and English.[1] There were three volumes, the first published in 1969 and the last published in 1979.[2]

The sales of the first volume reached 500,000.[3] Luke Tsai, in Eater, described the first volume as "easily one of the most influential Chinese cookbooks of all time."[4] Tsai, also writing for Taste, stated that parents of people in Taiwan who became adults circa 1989 to 1999, and those people themselves, are likely to possess at least one volume of this series.[3] The release of this book also made Fu known in Western countries,[1] and this is the most well-known aspect of Fu in those countries.[5]

As of 2020 there are 1,000 copies of the book in Radical Family Farms, in Sebastopol, California.[4]

References

  • King, Michelle T. (Spring 2018). "The Julia Child of Chinese Cooking, or the Fu Pei-mei of French Food?: Comparative Contexts of Female Culinary Celebrity". Gastronomica. 18 (1): 15–26. doi:10.1525/gfc.2018.18.1.15. JSTOR 26362502.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Han, Cheung (2021-09-12). "Taiwan in Time: It's Fu Pei-mei time". Taipei Times. Taipei. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  2. ^ King, p. 17.
  3. ^ a b Tsai, Luke (2019-06-27). "She Raised a Generation of Taiwanese Home Cooks". Taste. Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  4. ^ a b Tsai, Luke (2020-11-17). "Why a Small Sebastopol Farm Has 1,000 Copies of This Iconic, Out-of-Print Chinese Cookbook". Eater. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  5. ^ King, p. 15.


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