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Ann Mah discusses the regional cuisine of China and presents her book, Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family and Finding Yourself.

About Ann Mah

Ann Mah is a writer based in Paris. She also organizes cultural events and programs at the American Library in Paris. Her articles about food, travel, fashion, style and the arts have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, the International Herald Tribune, Washingtonian magazine, the South China Morning Post, the Insider's Guide to Beijing, as well as on her blog. After graduating from UCLA in 1997, Ann began her career in book publishing, eventually becoming an assistant editor at Viking Penguin in New York. From 2003-2007 she lived in Beijing, where she was a staff writer and dining editor for That's Beijing, an English-language entertainment magazine. Her experiences in China inspired her novel, Kitchen Chinese. In 2005, she was awarded a James Beard culinary scholarship to study Italian cuisine in Bologna, Italy.

Read an interview with Ann from Publishers Weekly.