This is not only a delightful cook book—it is a delightful story too. The recipes are designed to make the preparation of Chinese food as easy as eating it. In a simple and direct American way, Calvin Lee tells how to make the best of Chinese dishes, the kind you will find in the finest Chinese restaurants and never guess you could make so easily at home.
Calvin Lee (1934-1983) was a third-generation American, proprietor of the oldest Chinese restaurant in New York, at the most fabulous Chinese address in the city—at Mott and Pell Streets in the heart of Chinatown. Here his grandfather founded not only the first Chinese restaurant in the U.S., but the first to welcome western guests.
