In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the
award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable
living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with
influences from around the world.
For Mandy Lee, moving from New York to Beijing for her husband's work wasn't an
exotic adventure--it was an ordeal. Growing increasingly exasperated with
China's stifling political climate, its infuriating bureaucracy, and its choking
pollution, she began an unapologetically angry food blog, LadyandPups.com, to
keep herself from going mad.
Mandy cooked because it channeled her focus, helping her cope with the difficult
circumstances of her new life. She filled her kitchen