Taiwanese-Canadian Mandy Lee’s first attempt at cooking was not a success. In one of the chapters of The Art of Escapism Cooking (2019), she writes that when she was 16 and growing up in Vancouver, her mother and three “aunties” would have all-day sessions of mahjong. Each of the players would pay $5 for Lee to buy ingredients and cook them a meal, and whatever money was left over was hers to keep.“As a teenage girl whose cooking experience amounted to counting calories and microwaving face…
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