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In 1962, Chen published her influential cookbook, the Joyce Chen Cook Book. [4] Publishers had balked at her insistence on color pictures of food, so she had the book published privately at her own expense. She pre-sold over 6,000 copies of her book at her restaurants before the book was printed. [22]
Oct 10, 2024 · The Joyce Chen Cookbook was written to introduce Americans to more traditional Chinese food in the United States. In the preface she writes, “Some dishes considered Chinese, had been so adapted to American kitchen, grocery stores, and tastes’ that the dishes they describe are not really Chinese at all'' (Chen).
Aug 10, 2018 · The Joyce Chen Cook Book, first published in 1962 and out of print for...who knows how long, is an unusual entry into this list of my favorite food books. Of the 22 books I'll be covering, it's the only one that I hadn't actually read until just this past year.
- J. Kenji López-Alt
- Joyce Chen Learned to Cook from The Family Chef.
- She Starred in A Chinese Opera as A Teen.
- Joyce Chen Cooked For Harvard Heavyweights.
- She Self-Published Her First Cookbook.
- She Shared A Cooking Show Set with Julia Child.
- She Patented Her Own Cookware.
- The USPS Immortalized Joyce Chen on A Stamp.
The daughter of a wealthy railroad administrator and city executive, Joyce Chen had a privileged upbringing in pre-Communist China. She learned to cook by watching her family in the kitchen as well their private chef. By age 18 she had gained enough culinary expertise to host her first professional dinner. When she was forced to flee Shanghai with ...
Joyce Chen was a woman of many talents. Before leaving China, she sang the lead role in the opera White Snake in her late teen years. The show retold the Tang Dynasty-era legendof a snake who transforms into a woman to find love. The role required some serious vocal chops, but Chen decided to pursue a career in front of the stove rather than on sta...
The Chens settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard and MIT. There they met many students from China who craved the cuisine from their home country. The demand for authentic Chinese food, plus the positive reception to the cooking she’d done for her children’s school events, encouraged Chen to open the Joyce Chen Restaurant in 1958. Her num...
By the early 1960s, Joyce Chen had garnered enough clout to write her first cookbook. Her publisher refused her demands to include full-color images of the recipes, pushing her to publish the book on her own dime. The investment paid off; she sold more than 6000 copies of Joyce Chen Cook Bookto her restaurant patrons before it went to the printers....
Joyce Chen’s career soared to new heights when she landed her own cooking show in 1966. A few years before, The French Chefhad debuted on PBS and created the blueprint for the modern cooking show. Julia Child introduced millions of American viewers to classic French cooking, and PBS hoped Chen would do the same for Chinese cuisine. Joyce Chen Cooks...
After finding success as a restaurateur, cookbook author, and cooking show host, Joyce Chen continued to add achievements to her resume. Launched in the early 1970s, Joyce Chen Products brought Chinese utensils and cookware to the American market. In addition to selling traditional tools, she patented a new type of flat-bottomed wok with a handle, ...
Joyce Chen died in 1994 after being diagnosed with dementia, but her legacy as a pioneering chef has grown. In 2014, her portrait was featured in the USPS’s “Celebrity Chefs Forever” stamp series, which also spotlighted such culinary legends as James Beard and Edna Lewis. A picture book about her life titled Dumpling Dreams: How Joyce Chen Brought ...
- Michele Debczak
My mother’s classic cookbook, “Joyce Chen Cook Book,” published in 1962, included recipes for foods around China, and a forward by Paul Dudley White, M.D. Dr. White was President Eisenhower’s heart surgeon and a strong proponent of healthy lower fat dishes with more vegetable than the norm at the time.
Paul Dudley White, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ’s heart surgeon, wrote the forward to her book, and praised her for promoting healthier dishes for people to enjoy. Chen refused to use harmful additives in her cooking, such as Red Dye #2, and used healthier ingredients in her restaurants.
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In particular, in 1966, the station worked with renowned cookbook author and Cambridge restaurateur Joyce Chen to develop a series on Chinese cooking. Eventually, 26 episodes of Joyce Chen Cooks were shot and aired between 1966 and 1967.
