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My debut cookbook, My Shanghai: Recipes and Stories from a City on the Water, is about homestyle Chinese food from a family from Shanghai—the food of my family. While the cuisine of Shanghai is often labeled as sweet, to do so is to oversimplify the region’s palate. Instead, the cuisine focuses on the vibrance of the ingredients. In my book I highlight the rich abundance of produce found in Shanghai and its surrounding regions, whose land is richly fed by China’s longest river, the Yangtze. Its tributaries crisscross through the region, creating not only picturesque water towns but also fertile land full of vibrant produce.
