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Eileene Yin-Fei Lo is widely considered to be THE expert on Chinese cooking in the united states. The award winning author has just published her 10th cookbook called ‘My grandmother’s Chinese kitchen’. Its full of recipes and some amazing life lessons that she learnt from her grandmother. Eileene, good morning.
good morning. It’s so nice to see you again.
It’s so great to have you here.
Thank you very much.
You’ve talked about your grandmother in other books,
Yes.
but this is the first one devoted to her.
Yes
Why did you decide to do that?
She is one of the most uh, umm.. beautiful person, kind and never raise her voice and teach me all the, the manner, and how to cook, always use food. So example, uh.. you, you cook the rice, you always give the best part to your older, you don’t give the one that’s, you know, burn or anything.
So the best part goes to your elders.
Exactly. Respect.
You show respect. And meanwhile she was teaching you really all of these wonderful skills, that you’re sharing with us today. Basically how to cook.
Yes, I was cooking since five years old. So let’s make the beef.
Okay. This is beef with peppers and black beans.

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