Art is a huge part of my life and my work.
Here is a sample…
Gastronomica
When this renowned scholarly food journal asked me to write a history of everyone’s favorite brunch, I became entranced with the idea of how lovely the edible art of dim sum can be. Viewed from above, these delicious morsels reveal a strange beauty.
All Under Heaven:
Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China
Ten Speed Press and McSweeney were the publishers of my major work on all the cuisines of China, and we decided that filling this huge book with over 500 pages of illustrations and maps would be a crazy yet unique way to get the complexity of this project across.
The Dim Sum Field Guide
This started out as a feature for Lucky Peach, but then quickly morphed into a book that was such a joy to create that it probably should have been illegal.
Paintings
Few things in life bring me as much happiness as days dedicated to working in oils, pastels, and gouache.
At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes
As I wrote about my life, and the lives of my husband’s family, all these images grew in my mind, and so I set them down on paper.
Additional illustrations, various media
These are for various stories and books, some published, some not.
