(ran NS S editions of Tampa Bay & State)
JOYCE CHEN, 76, who popularized Mandarin cuisine in America with her restaurants, cookbooks and television programs, died Tuesday in Lexington, Mass., of complications associated with Alzheimer's disease. She wrote The Joyce Chen Cookbook and was host of the nationally broadcast PBS program Joyce Chen Cooks. Born in Beijing, she opened New England's first Mandarin Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., in 1958, introducing Americans to Peking duck, moo shu pork and hot-and-sour soup. Her regular patrons included John Kenneth Galbraith, James Beard, Julia Child and Henry Kissinger.
