Dumpling Therapy: My Mother, Chinese Food, and Five Thousand Years of Not-So-Ancient Recipes

A delicious and moving memoir, tracing a family's journey through Chinese food.

As a teen growing up in San Francisco, Miranda Brown noticed her outspoken immigrant mother didn't act-or cook-like other Chinese mothers. Butter invaded coffee. Stinky fruits found their way into ice cream. Brown dreamed of making dumplings the way “normal” Chinese moms did.

Years later, after her mother's death, Brown became a mother herself. Determined to master the classic Chinese cooking her mother never taug...