Chinese Chopsticks

A Manual of Chinese Cookery and Guide to Peiping Restaurants

by Mary Li Sia

1935 First Edition

Peiping Chronicle, Peiping, China, 1935.

Hardcover; First Edition; 106pp.

Blue boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards age-toned with slight wrinkling to front board & fading to spine titling, bookplate to FFEP, a few smudges & slight foxing to text, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. (Bookplate & laid in notes of Mabel Altona Wood (1896-1978), head of the Home Economics department at University of Oregon.)

Scarce, vintage Chinese cookbook and guide to Beijing (then Peiping) restaurants. The author, Mary Li Sia (1899-1971) was a Chinese-American teacher & cookbook author known as the "Julia Child of Hawaii" for her long career teaching and writing about Chinese food. Illustrated with photos (including tissue guards).