Taiwanese mother’s recipes for her children living in the US: comfort food like mama used to make it

This is a very personal book – Ruth Wu Lieu wrote it for her children, so that they would know how to make the dishes they had enjoyed at home while growing up in the United States. Mama Lieu’s Kitchen (2015) begins with the author recounting her childhood in Taiwan during the Pacific war (1941-45) and in the 1950s, when food was scarce. Wu Lieu’s mother opened a grocery store to supple­ment the household income, but also so that the family would have a supply of food. As...