Rare Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book - 1969 Edition - Chinese and English Bilingual Cookbook twelfth printing a host of more adventurous

a host of more adventurous dishes for the frontier-inspired cook are also included

Always popular as gift items

it is stamped with a Nippon Handpainted mark and a maple leaf - the earliest symbol of the china company

The nieces wanted to spoil their new husbands with the whole array of favorite family meals they had known throughout their childhood and the aunts were just the ones to set them on the path to culinary bliss

Rare Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book - 1969 Edition - Chinese and English Bilingual Cookbook twelfth printing a host of more adventurousA Chinese proverb tells us to become a good cook one must first be a good matchmaker who understands harmony and marriage of flavors. (from the Introduction) {HISTORY} Fu Pei Mei (1931 2004), undoubtedly the most beloved and most famous Chinese Taiwanese cook of the 20th century, came to her culinary pursuits like many women of the 1950s. As a young wife who wanted to impress her husband with her cooking prowess and tempting dishes, Fu began married