Jessica Faye Carter - Hyphenated – Asian grandmothers celebrate ...

The grandmother-as-kitchen-guru mystique transcends boundaries, from Italian nonnas to Jewish bubbes. Grandmothers have often been through hard times and know how to make a meal from meager ingredients. They’re usually adept at feeding large groups of people with varying tastes, and cook by instinct, rarely using recipes that exist on paper. This fall, a number of cookbook publishers are releasing books by Asian women of a certain age. The books are quite serious and not at all hokey or gimmicky, and span a range of nationalities, but all are written by Asian women over 60.

via  Publishers Put Stock in Asian Grandmothers – 8/27/2009 12:36:00 PM – Publishers Weekly .

I love the fact that these women—all of whom are grandmothers—continue to contribute to the current body of work in the culinary arts.  While I look forward to trying and sampling the recipes, it will also be interesting to look for cultural nuggets in their books. Grandmothers (and those of their generation) are often the stewards of cultural histories, something of tremendous value in communities that are remote from their land of origin.

The books scheduled for release this fall are listed below:

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Comments (7) Curt Howland

My wife is from China, and the entrepreneurial spirit there is a joy to see, even if I do see it from a distance.

So long as no one challenges the "right" of the Party to rule, there is enough rampant corruption and tax evasion to make for a truly robust market.

It will be interesting to see if China "cracks down" on their market forces, or gets out of the way to make China truly successful at the lowest levels. So far, it seems that the latter is possible.

Maybe Jim Rogers is right. But then, he's in Singapore, which is NOT somewhere I have any interest in living.

Published: August 29, 2009 6:19 PM

yea have a lot of asians in new zealand learning english.most are natural libertrians korea for example has no income tax .when new zealand signed the first free trade agreement with china they put on the best fire works show ive seen as a gift.(talk about free trade bringing peace and understanding )it wasnt 2 long ago our relationship was more fear and mistrust.with all the progress asian nations have had with libertrian ideas i think they will keep marching to liberty both personal and economic.

Published: August 29, 2009 9:58 PM

didn't japan just vote in some obama-style socialists?

keynesianism doesn't work ---> try even more government intervention!!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/29/japan.elections/index.html

Published: August 29, 2009 10:48 PM

I was always interested in making Mises Institute's material available to my fellow Indians, but I am not sure under what licensing the stuff is covered into. For example translating 'Economics in One Lesson'(which is on the top of my list) involves rewriting it changing the examples and phrases into a more understandable English and rewriting the applications of lessons from 1950's America to 2000s India.

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