Nicole Mones
Nicole Mones
Nicole Monesis an American novelist and food writer. As of March 2014 she has published four novels, entitled Lost in Translation, which appeared in 1998, A Cup of Light, and The Last Chinese Chef,, and in March 2014, "Night in Shanghai. Lost in Translation won the 2000 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize awarded by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester for best work of fiction by an...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.
Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.
You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.
Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.