A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures: A Cookbook

2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee for best American cookbook; named one of the best cookbooks of 2018 by The New York Times, NPR, Epicurious, and Eater, and featured in Washington Post, NYT Cooking, Eater LA, Food52, Publisher's Weekly, and more."LA-based food blog star Cynthia Chen McTernan stuns with this accessible, and personal, story of how she blends her Chinese heritage with her Southern upbringing. . . . The photography, which Chen McTernan shoots herself, is phenomenal[,] and the recipes are pretty easy, good enough for a novice cook to start spending more time in the kitchen. [T]he story of melding cuisines and heritage is a classic Angeleno story of reinvention and discovery." - MATTHEW KANG, Eater LA"Lawyer/food blogger Cynthia Chen McTernan's primary food influences are Southern (from her childhood), Korean (from her mother-in-law) and Chinese (from her family). Sound promising? For good reason. . . . This is McTernan's first cookbook, and it has that feeling