By Henry W.S. Chung
ISBN 10: 0517533251 / 0-517-53325-1 ISBN 13: 9780517533253 Publisher: Harmony Books Publication Date: 1978
I picked a copy of this book up at a second hand bookstore in Ottawa and when I opened it I was pleasantly surprised to see that it is autographed by the author himself. The autograph, accompanied by the author’s personal Chinese seal, is prefaced with wishes of ‘Happy eating’ to a person named ‘Greg Lowder’. The signature is dated 1985 (7 years later than the publication date) so it doesn’t look like this book was a copy purchased at a ‘book-signing’ promotion. I can’t help speculating about who this Mr. Lowder might be, or how this signed edition ended up in a second hand bookstore … an estate-sale, maybe? Continue reading “Review: Henry Chung’s Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook”