For much of recent memory, Chinese food was largely the domain of restaurant kitchens or behind the closed doors of Chinese households—foreign at times even to younger generations wanting to recreate the tastes of home. 

Today, Chinese home cooking in America is excitingly in flux. Never before has Chinese food been so present in our home kitchens. Along with their parents, Sarah and Kaitlin Leung run the popular Chinese cooking blog The Woks of Life, which has helped fuel the popularity of Chinese home cooking. In this virtual Chicago Foodways Roundtable, Sarah and Kaitlin will share more on the evolution of Chinese home cooking from their experience developing recipes for their blog and new cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love from a Chinese American Family.

 

Founded in 2013, The Woks of Life began as a quest to document one family’s history through food and has become the most popular online resource for Chinese cooking in English, recording generations of recipes for millions of home cooks. 

 

 

Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung have been featured on PBS, Food Network Digital, Magnolia Network, Good Morning America, as well as The New York Times, Eater, and many other publications. Their cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love from a Chinese American Family is a New York Times and USA Today Best Seller. The family lives in New Jersey where they cook, write, and photograph recipes together—and continue their eternal debate over what’s for dinner.

 

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Wednesday, December 8th, 2022
7 p.m. Central Time
Presented Via ZOOM

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