The Last Chinese Chef
penulis Nicole Mones
278 halaman, NA/ Cultural/ Travel
Rating: 
Dipublikasikan 4 Mei 2007 oleh
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the
best-selling author of Lost in
Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects:
food. As in her previous novels, Mones’s captivating story also brings into
focus a changing China—this time the hidden world of high culinary culture.
When Maggie McElroy, a widowed American food writer, learns of a Chinese paternity claim against her late husband’s estate, she has to go immediately to Beijing. She asks her magazine for time off, but her editor counters with an assignment: to profile the rising culinary star Sam Liang.
In China Maggie unties the knots of her husband’s past, finding out more than she expected about him and about herself. With Sam as her guide, she is also drawn deep into a world of food rooted in centuries of history and philosophy. To her surprise she begins to be transformed by the cuisine, by Sam’s family—a querulous but loving pack of cooks and diners—and most of all by Sam himself. The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of a woman regaining her soul in the most unexpected of places.
When Maggie McElroy, a widowed American food writer, learns of a Chinese paternity claim against her late husband’s estate, she has to go immediately to Beijing. She asks her magazine for time off, but her editor counters with an assignment: to profile the rising culinary star Sam Liang.
In China Maggie unties the knots of her husband’s past, finding out more than she expected about him and about herself. With Sam as her guide, she is also drawn deep into a world of food rooted in centuries of history and philosophy. To her surprise she begins to be transformed by the cuisine, by Sam’s family—a querulous but loving pack of cooks and diners—and most of all by Sam himself. The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of a woman regaining her soul in the most unexpected of places.
Buat kalian yang tertarik untuk
mengenal Tiongkok dari sudut pandang kulinernya, saya rasa novel ini merupakan
sarana yang tepat. The Last Chinese Chef bercerita tentang Maggie, jurnalis
kolom khusus American food yang harus
pergi ke Tiongkok untuk mengurus masalah paternity
claim. Seorang wanita misterius mengaku pernah memiliki hubungan istimewa
dengan mendiang suaminya, dan kini menuntut sebagian/ seluruh harta suami Maggie
atas nama hak buah hati perselingkuhan mereka.
