9,700 Miles of Chinese Recipes
“THE MOST IMPORTANT thing we figured out was how to collect recipes,” writes Nate Tate in the introduction to Feeding the Dragon. “Asking a chef to share his secrets with us or making friends with someone only to invite ourselves back to his or her home to cook a meal together was awkward at first, but we were rarely turned away; Chinese people are incredibly hospitable, especially when they realize you are a foreigner who has made the effort to speak their language.”