Chinese Dishes for Foreign Homes. A Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Popular "Chinese Dishes"

Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Red hardcover boards, string-bound sheets, strings have presumably Chinese coins attached. Light stain to front cover, else a nice copy. Nellie Choy Wong was the first Chinese woman to publish a Chinese cookbook in English. She was stolen from her parents and sold into slavery at age 8 before escaping at age 14 while in Hawaii. She returned to China when she was 20 with the intention of opening a pharmacy school. Despite her best efforts, it didn't work out and she eventually opened a drug store in Beijing. This cookbook was first published in 1927, and this 1933 edition is the second impression of the revised edition. An important entry in cuisine from a woman who seems to need a biopic made of her!