Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food

I have felt the pull of this extravagant wanting elsewhere . . . A meal is a shape. It is a container into which we pour our cravings.

After a thirteen-year relationship came to an end, food journalist Candice Chung found herself losing not only her first love but also her most reliable restaurant review partner. And so when her parents offer to be her new plus-ones, she faces a dilemma: Is it better to eat together in polite silence or to try to broach how, for the past decade, they've mana...