{"product_id":"mama-lieus-kitchen-ruth-wu-lieu-9781499766493","title":"Mama Lieu's Kitchen: A Cookbook Memoir of Delicious Taiwanese and Chinese Home Cooking for My Children","description":"A cookbook that is partly historical, partly memoir, \u003ci\u003eMama Lieu's Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the food that was central to life and culture in Taiwan. The book journeys through Ruth Lieu's childhood in Taipei during World War II, her teenage years in the postwar 1950s, and continues to the 1960s in the U.S.\u003cp\u003e Ruth vividly describes the food she and her family ate during World War II-- from the bottle of cooked flour with sugar each child carried to tide them over while huddled in bomb shelters to lean postwar years of monotonous lunches of boiled rice with salted, pickled white turnip and egg, which her mother packed for her six brothers and sisters. Heartwarming stories of family, friends, and neighbors helping each during the tough times weave through the narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is dedicated to Ruth's three children, Tina, Clara, and Derek, who still call her from far- flung places asking, \"Mama, how do you make...?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Wu Lieu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1499766491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781499766493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.52w x 0.52d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ruth Wu Lieu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989924380927,"sku":"9781499766493","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86108a5f-c36d-4114-9f06-4800b72955a3.jpg?v=1683302100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mama-lieus-kitchen-ruth-wu-lieu-9781499766493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}