Download or read book Apron Strings written by Jan Wong and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the villagers teach them without fuss or fanfare how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they home-cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who comprise one of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting -- and occasionally clashing -- over their mutual love of cooking. A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious.
Download or read book A Comrade Lost and Found written by Jan Wong and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to make amends, Wong returns to Beijing to find the classmate she betrayed during the Cultural Revolution. As she traces her way from one former comrade to the next, Wong unearths not only the fate of the woman she is searching for but a web of fates that mirrors the dramatic journey of contemporary China.
Download or read book Lunch With written by Jan Wong and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have predicted that she'll never eat lunch in this town again. But as "Lunch With" proves each week, there's always another unsuspecting celebrity ready to break bread with columnist Jan Wong. Now's your chance to dine with her while she dishes, disses and dissects the likes of Suzanne Somers, Jeffrey Archer, Margaret Trudeau, Dr. Ruth, Preston Manning, Atom Egoyan, Don Cherry, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Bryan Adams, Sarah Polley, Eartha Kitt, Helen Gurley Brown and many more, in sixty of her funniest, most trenchant, often barbed and occasionally moving "Lunch With" columns. With an introduction on the lunching phenomenon, some appetizing background on arranging the interviews, and (for dessert) some reactions from readers and guests, this compilation is a deliciously wicked treat from start to finish.
Download or read book Apple Pie Fourth of July written by Janet S. Wong and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.
Download or read book Out of the Blue written by Jan Wong and published by Jan Wong. This book was released on 2012-05-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Wong wrote a story that sparked a violent backlash, including death threats. For the first time in her life she spiraled into clinical depression. Her newspaper accused her of feigning illness and fired her; her insurer rejected her claim of depression; and her publisher refused to publish this book. She fought back.
Download or read book Twist written by Janet S. Wong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems composed to inspire different yoga poses.
Download or read book Knock on Wood written by Janet S. Wong and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventeen original poems about superstitions, including walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and knocking on wood.
Download or read book Chinese Whispers written by Jan Wong and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Jan Wong first went to China in 1972 as one of only two Westerners allowed to enrol at Beijing University. When fellow student Yin Luoyi asked for help getting to America Wong, then a starry-eyed Maoist, immediately reported her to the authorities. 33 years later, Wong returns to begin her search for the woman who haunts her conscience.
Download or read book Unfree Speech written by Joshua Wong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 23-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - and Nobel Peace Prize nominee - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei With global democracy under threat, we must act together to defend out rights: now. When he was 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first-ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education -- and won. Since then, Joshua has led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the anti-extradition bill protests, which have seen 2 million people -- more than a quarter of the population -- take to Hong Kong's streets. His actions have sparked worldwide attention, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and landed him in jail twice. Composed in three parts, Unfree Speech chronicles Joshua's path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner under the Chinese state, and closes with a powerful and urgent call for all of us globally to defend our democratic values. When we stay silent, no one is safe. When we free our speech, our voice becomes one.
Download or read book The Feelgood Plan written by Dalton Wong and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Jennifer Lawrence. Expert celebrity trainer Dalton Wong and health writer Kate Faithfull-Williams show that by taking 15 minutes – that’s just 1% of your day – you can change your body and mind for life. The Feelgood Plan is packed with positive ideas to help you tune in to what really makes your body feel great, from highly effective do-anywhere 15 minute workouts that make you look and feel younger, to healthier versions of all your favourite foods. Whenever you feel tired or stressed out, Dalton and Kate’s down-to-earth tips will get you back on track. As well as a 12-week plan that puts all your healthy intentions into action, The Feelgood Plan is packed with practical advice and interactive quizzes to help you conquer cravings, emotional eating, and find a way to fit exercise into even the most jam-packed diary.
Download or read book The Identical Lunch written by Philip Corner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miss Nelson Has a Field Day written by Harry Allard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian from the black lagoon: A class plans their first visit to the library.
Download or read book Hammy and Gerbee Mummies at the Museum written by Wong Herbert Yee and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When best friends Hammy and Gerbee join their class on a field trip to the science museum, they find their own fun--and trouble--along the way.
Download or read book Dear Girls written by Ali Wong and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad. “Knife-sharp . . . a genuine pleasure.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Variety • Chicago Tribune • Glamour • New York In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (i.e. the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, tales of being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting war stories. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all. Praise for Dear Girls “Fierce, feminist, and packed with funny anecdotes.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Wong] spins a volume whose pages simultaneously shock and satisfy. . . . Dear Girls is not so much a real-talk handbook as it is a myth-puncturing manifesto.”—Vogue “[A] refreshing, hilarious, and honest account of making a career in a male-dominated field, dating, being a mom, growing up, and so much more…Yes, this book is addressed to Wong’s daughters, but every reader will find nuggets of wisdom and inspiration and, most important, something to laugh at.”—Bustle
Download or read book D v written by Diana Vreeland and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-08-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here she tells how Buffalo Bill taught her to ride, describes how she redefined the standards of attractiveness with the quirky models she brought to Vogue in the sixties, disparages her own looks, relates her search for the perfect red, and discourses on the nature of elegance. Whatever her subject, from backaches to nostalgia, from Paris to New York, from marriage to dinner parties, from Clark Gable to Swifty Lazar, you never want her to stop. For D.
Download or read book The Woo Woo written by Lindsay Wong and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”—Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Download or read book I Wish You Happiness written by Michael Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with endless heartfelt wishes and beautifully cute illustrations, I Wish You Happiness is an inspiring book of hope and happiness for wishers of all ages. This timeless book is a truly thoughtful gift for any occasion.
