Grace Hwang Lynch is a San Francisco Bay Area writer specializing in Asian American food and culture. Her writing has been published by outlets such as NPR, Eating Well, KQED, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury News and was a finalist for an IACP Food Writing award. Follow her on Instagram @gracehwanglynch.
Linda Shiue, MD, Chef, is a Taiwanese American physician, professionally trained chef, and author of the award-winning cookbook, Spicebox Kitchen. She is the Director of Culinary Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, where she founded Thrive Kitchen, a teaching kitchen. You can connect with Dr. Shiue @spiceboxtravels.
In How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family, Grace Hwang Lynch takes readers on a bittersweet journey as the firstborn daughter of Taiwanese immigrants learning to navigate the California suburbs, Asian American identity, and motherhood while exploring what love, food, and family mean in light of her generational roots. Through Grace’s stories and included recipes, these meals express what words cannot, prompting an examination of what love—and food—mean in an immigrant family.
