Fu Pei-mei was revered as a master of Chinese cooking. Born in Dalian, northeast China, in 1931, she moved to Taiwan in 1949. In 1962, she started a television cooking programme that ran for almost 40 years. Fu also established the popular Chinese Cooking Institute of Taipei. She died of cancer in 2004.Over the course of her long career she wrote more than 30 cookbooks. The three-volume set Pei Mei’s Chinese Cook Book (1969, 1974 and 1979) helped her reach an international audience, because Fu…
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