Teresa M. Chen, PhD, and her husband, Yi-Po Anthony Wu, MD, founded
Pacific Complementary Medicine Center in Stockton, California, in
1993. Dr. Chen oversees community outreach and health education,
organizes seminars, conferences and workshops, leads breathing and
Liu Tong exercise classes, lectures to college extension and
community groups, and contributes articles about food, nutrition,
exercise, and complementary medicine to publications such as APA
(Asian Pacific American) News and Review and Connections, an
alternative newspaper published by the Peace and Justice
Network.
Named the Chinese Cultural Society of Stockton's 2007 Citizen of
the Year, Dr. Chen has also served on the board of the United Way
of San Joaquin and of Jene Wah, Inc., a Chinese multi-service and
senior citizen center. She has developed and secured funding from
San Joaquin County for an Asian Nutrition Lunch program and an
acupuncture-based chemical-dependency treatment program. Raised in
Hong Kong, Dr. Chen graduated from Radcliffe College and received
her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii. Before
settling in Stockton, she was a researcher at the University of
California at Berkeley and taught at San Francisco State
University.
“For soup enthusiasts like me, this book is simply invaluable.”
—From the foreword by Martin Yan, bestselling author and host of
Yan Can Cook
“[Teresa Chen’s] new book, A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from
China’s Pearl River Delta, a collection of 144 recipes from
southern China, is the result of years invested in health
education…The recipes, intermingled with information about southern
Chinese culture, traditional medicine, and immigration history, are
grouped by seasons and health concerns, including gaining and
losing weight, getting rid of acne, and preventing wrinkles.”
—Harvard Magazine
“Chen lays out the basics of nearly the whole of Chinese
gastronomy…[she] has made it safe for me to walk into any Chinese
pharmacopeia and conduct myself well.”
—Olivia Wu, The Art of Eating Magazine
“I've often wondered why our family had so humble a name: Hong
(meaning soup). Thanks to Teresa Chen, I now understand that soup
has as long and powerful a tradition as tea. Soup is a healing
medicine, and soup sustains and extends life. Soup has its myths
and stories. And soup made its way from China to America, from the
Pearl River Delta to the San Joaquin Delta, in the cookery of
immigrants such as my mother.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of the award-winning The Woman
Warrior and recipient of the 2008 National Books Awards’ Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
“While there are dozens of superb cookbooks that translate
Cantonese cooking for Americans, none take Teresa Chen’s expansive
medicinal approach to food. I recommend this book not only to those
interested in health, but also to those who want to discover a
whole new and thoroughly fascinating branch of Chinese
cuisine.”
—Ken Albala, professor of history at University of the Pacific and
award-winning author of Beans: A History
“A Tradition of Soup is a treasure chest of Cantonese soup recipes
generously garnished with cultural gems, ancient wisdom, beautiful
pictures, and lucid prose.”
—Brian Chee C. Loh, OMD, LAc, president of the American Institute
of Chinese Medicine and the Association of World Traditional
Medicine
“Unlike many Asian cookbooks, [Chen] doesn't include easily-found
substitutes available in all grocery stores. Rather, arguing that
traditional ingredients are now relatively easy to find or order
through a website, she presents classic recipes using traditional
ingredients.”
—Lindsay McSweeney, Suite101.com
“A Tradition of Soup focuses on the place of soup in Cantonese
cuisine, specifically around the rich and fertile Pearl River Delta
in China, and what might be called its sister culture in
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California, where so many Chinese
immigrants ended up after fleeing war, repression or famine in
their own country.”
—BiblioBuffet
“Much more than a cookbook, A Tradition of Soup introduces us to
TCM nutritional theory, the historical connections between the
Pearl River Delta and the San Joaquin Delta, and the stories of the
Cantonese immigrants who brought the culinary treasures from their
homeland to the United States. … A Tradition of Soup presents the
idea that soup, and food in general, are key components of building
wellness and preventing disease. … In looking through the
mouthwatering [recipe chapter], one cannot help but wonder when we
can start cooking!”
—American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Campus Forum
“If you love soups, the recipes [in A Tradition of Soup] are a
treasure trove. … The book has classic cultural gems and great
valuable and usable information. … Do not know how we managed
without it, but we do know that we recommend it without
hesitation.”
—Flavor & Fortune
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