I was reading "Eating- A memoir" by Jason Epstein and was most pleasantly surprised to learn that the famous Yuen Ren Chao's wife had a cookbook which he wrote on her behalf in English. It's a real geeky thing to be impressed by, these connexions life makes, but wow.. I knew him as the linguist we quote on Chinese grammatical stuff in my masters thesis.. and now there's Mrs. Chao and her first cookbook to attempt authentic Chinese techniques and recipes in English. It has been two weeks ago since I learnt this and I haven't found anyone who's as excited to know of this but me. The serendipity of it all welling up inside me with no one to appreciate how cool it is. Now that I've come to terms with my un-ebbing excitement about this, I've grabbed a copy off Ebay. Can't wait to see T at the conference and share this little nugget of fun fact with her.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday tea
I was reading "Eating- A memoir" by Jason Epstein and was most pleasantly surprised to learn that the famous Yuen Ren Chao's wife had a cookbook which he wrote on her behalf in English. It's a real geeky thing to be impressed by, these connexions life makes, but wow.. I knew him as the linguist we quote on Chinese grammatical stuff in my masters thesis.. and now there's Mrs. Chao and her first cookbook to attempt authentic Chinese techniques and recipes in English. It has been two weeks ago since I learnt this and I haven't found anyone who's as excited to know of this but me. The serendipity of it all welling up inside me with no one to appreciate how cool it is. Now that I've come to terms with my un-ebbing excitement about this, I've grabbed a copy off Ebay. Can't wait to see T at the conference and share this little nugget of fun fact with her.
