Cecilia Chiang was the presiding genius of one of the great Chinese restaurants of the world, The Mandarin, in Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco...Now, in collaboration with Allan Carr, she has recalled the Mandarin Way as she knew it in a memoir that eludes conventional classification-at once a fascinating account of growing up in Old China, a re-creation of its festivals and customs, and a little treasury of recipes and the classic Chinese literature. |