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Wong, Jan.
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Wong, Jan -- Travel.
Food -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- France.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- Italy.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- China.
International cooking.
Globalization.
Families.
Women authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women journalists -- Canada -- Biography
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Wong, Jan.
Wong, Jan -- Travel.
Food -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- France.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- Italy.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- China.
International cooking.
Globalization.
Families.
Women authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women journalists -- Canada -- Biography
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Apron strings : navigating food and family in France, Italy, and China /
Jan
Wong
.
by
Wong
,
Jan
.
Goose Lane Editions, 2017.
Call #:
394.12 W872a
Subjects
Wong
,
Jan
--
Travel
.
Food
--
Social aspects.
Food habits
--
Social aspects
--
France.
Food habits
--
Social aspects
--
Italy.
Food habits
--
Social aspects
--
China.
International cooking.
Globalization.
Families.
Women authors, Canadian
--
21st century
--
Biography.
Women journalists
--
Canada
--
Biography
ISBN:
9780864929617 (pbk.)
Description:
380 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"
Jan
Wong
knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey,
Jan
and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the villagers teach them without fuss or fanfare how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they home-cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who comprise one of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting and occasionally clashing over their mutual love of cooking. A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons.
Jan
Wong
is the author of Out of the Blue: a memoir of workplace depression, recovery, redemption and, yes, happiness; and Red China Blues: my long march from Mao to now. She is a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian,
Jan
is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Travel
memoirs.
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