Mama Lieu’s Kitchen: A Cookbook Memoir of Delicious Taiwanese and Chinese Home Cooking for My Children

Ruth Lieu was the youngest of seven children. She learned to cook by watching her mother prepare meals, and also saw fancy dishes conjured up by the catering chefs hired for holiday celebrations. By junior high, Ruth was preparing family dinners. In 1967 she immigrated to the Boston area with her husband, Leo. Ruth decided to write a cookbook to demystify Chinese dishes and their strange names like ＂Chop Suey＂ and ＂Ma Po Tofu.＂ She shares the cultural background of these dishes hoping to make eating Chinese food more interesting for the reader.